Tradition, translation, trauma [[electronic resource] ] : the classic and the modern / / edited by Jan Parker, Timothy Mathews

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (375 p.)
• Disciplina: 809
• Soggetto topico: Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) - History; Transmission of texts - Europe - History; Translating and interpreting - History; Psychic trauma in literature
• Altri autori: ParkerJan MathewsTimothy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Prologue; Introduction: Images of Tradition, Translation, Trauma . . .; Part I. Handing on, Making Anew, Refusing the Classic; Part II. Modernity and its Price; Nostalgia and the Classic; Part III. The Time of Memory, the Time of Trauma; Conclusion: Can Anyone Look in Both Directions at Once?; Epilogue; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Tradition, Trauma, Translation is concerned with how Classic texts - mainly Greek and Latin but also Arabic and Portuguese - become present in later cultures and how they resonate in the modern. A distinguished international team of contributors and responders examine the topic in different ways. Some discuss singular encounters with the Classic - those of Heaney, Pope, Fellini, Freud, Ibn Qutayba, Cavafy and others - and show how translations engage with the affectiveimpact of texts over time and space. Poet-translator contributors draw on their own experience here. Others offer images of tra
• Titolo autorizzato: Tradition, translation, trauma
• ISBN: 0-19-180825-3; 1-283-34852-7; 9786613348524; 0-19-161760-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996204080003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Classical presences.