Twentieth-century poetic translation : literary cultures in Italian and English

Twentieth-century poetic translation : literary cultures in Italian and English / edited by Daniela Caselli and Daniela La Penna.

Twentieth Century Poetic Translation analyses translations of Italian and English poetry and their roles in shaping national identities by merging historical, cultural and theoretical perspectives. Focusing on specific case studies within the Italian, English and North American literary communities,...

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Other Authors: Caselli, Daniela (Editor), La Penna, Daniela (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, [2008]
Series:Continuum literary studies.
Subjects:
English poetry > Translations into Italian > History and criticism.
Italian poetry > Translations into English > History and criticism.
American poetry > Translations into Italian > History and criticism.
Translating and interpreting.
Language and culture.
English language > Style.
Italian language > Style.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English language > Style
Italian language > Style
Italian poetry
Language and culture
Translating and interpreting
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Historicizing Value, Negotiating Visibility: English and Italian Poetic Canons in Translation; Section I: Contexts of Translation: Twentieth-Century Transactions; 2 An Enquiry into Linguistic and Stylistic Features of Modern Translation into Italian; 3 Translation and the European Tradition: The Italian 'Third Generation'; 4 Value and Authority in Anthologies of Italian Poetry in English (1956-1992); Section II: Reading Communities and the Politics of Translation: Value and Visibility in Three Case Studies.
  • 5 Varifocal Translation in Ciaran Carson's Inferno6 Acts of Literary Impertinence: Translating Belli's romanesco Sonnets; 7 Trilussa: A Case Study in the Translation of Dialect Poetry; Section III: Translation, Identity and Authority; 8 Arsenio's Alchemy: Notes on Eugenio Montale's 1933 Translations of T.S. Eliot and Léonie Adams; 9 Going after 'La Bufera': Geoffrey Hill Translates Eugenio Montale; 10 Translating Larkin; 11 Translation as Resurrection: Charles Tomlinson's 'The Return'; Section IV: Theories of Translation: Ethics and Genre.
  • 12 Translation and the Question of Poetry: Jacques Derrida's Che cos'é la poesia?13 From a Morality of Translation to an Ethics of Translation: In Step with the Play of Language; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

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