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Record Nr.

UNISA996218131203316

Titolo

Translation and the classic [[electronic resource] ] : identity as change in the history of culture / / edited by Alexandra Lianeri and Vanda Zajko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-85299-6

9786611852993

0-19-155838-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 p.)

Collana

Classical presences

Altri autori (Persone)

LianeriAlexandra

ZajkoVanda

Disciplina

880.09

Soggetti

Classical literature - Translations - History and criticism

Transmission of texts

Electronic books.

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.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Still Being Read after so Many Years: Rethinking the Classic through Translation; I. THEORIZING TRANSLATION AND THE CLASSIC; II. THE SURVIVAL OF THE CLASSIC: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANSLATIONS; III. CONTESTING THE CLASSIC: THE POLITICS OF TRANSLATION PRACTICE; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Contemporary translation studies have explored translation not as a means of recovering a source text, but as a process of interpretation and production of literary meaning and value. Translation and the Classic uses this idea to discuss the relationship between translation and the classic text. It proposes a framework in which 'the classic' figures less as an autonomous entity than as the result of the interplay between source text and translation practice and examines theconsequences of this hypothesis for questioning established definitions of the classic: how does translation mediate the s