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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814520403321

Autore

Andrés Estellés Vicent

Titolo

After the classics [[electronic resource] ] : a translation into English of the selected verse of Vicent Andrés Estellés / / translated with an introduction and notes by Dominic Keown, Tom Owen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013

ISBN

90-272-7184-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

IVITRA Research in linguistics and literature : studies, editions and translations, , 2211-5412 ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

KeownDominic

OwenTom

Disciplina

849/.9152

Soggetti

Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This selection of the verse of Valencian poet Vicent Andres Estelles (1924-1993) is accompanied by a translation into English from the original Catalan. The format of an innovative dialogue with classical authors - a cornerstone of Estellesian expression - constitutes an ingenious invocation and parodic commentary on the output and ethos of the Latin poets Horace, Ovid, Virgil and Catullus, the medieval patriarch of Valencian letters Ausiàs March and the Renaissance Castilian poet, Garcilaso de la Vega. For Estellés, Octavian Rome provides a parallel to the Franco dictatorship and the historic