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24 - Translating Poetry

from Part V - Translation in Practice: Arts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

By
Paschalis Nikolaou  and
Cecilia Rossi
Edited by
Kirsten Malmkjær
Kirsten Malmkjær
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
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Summary

Chapter 24 provides a history of thought on poetry translation ranging from the Roman poets translating Greek, to the experiments of Louis and Celia Zukovsky. They explore how poetic forms, for example the haiku and the sonnet, have been introduced to literary systems beyond their origins through translation, and how the poetry of the classical world has been reanimated through modernism’s shifts in practices and views of translation. They discuss the ‘translation’ of texts in a literary context by poets and versioners who may or may not read the source languages concerned. Throughout, the emphasis is on exemplification and on the connection between theoretical perspectives and paratextual reflection.

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Poetry translationRomansGreekintroduction of formsclassical poetryexemplification
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The Cambridge Handbook of Translation , pp. 480 - 498
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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