Tradition, translation, trauma : the classic and the modern /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Parker, Jan, Mathews, Timothy
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:	Classical presences.
Subjects:	Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) > History. Transmission of texts > Europe > History. Translating and interpreting > History. Psychic trauma in literature.

Table of Contents:

Prologue / Susan Bassnett
Introduction: Images of tradition, translation, trauma... / Jan Parker
Pt. I. Handing on, making anew, refusing the classic: Proemion : translating a paean of praise / Frederick Ahl
1. Fuzzy connections : classical texts and modern poetry in English / Lorna Hardwick
2. Pope's Trojan geography / David Hopkins
3. Sophoclean journeys / Pat Easterling
4. Cicero : gentleman and orator : metaphors in eighteenth-century reception / Matthew Fox
5. Eating Eumolpus : Fellini Satyricon and dreaming tradition / Richard Armstrong
6. After Freud : Sophocles' Oedipus in the twenty-first century / Rachel Bowlby
pt. II. Modernity and its price : nostalgia and the classic: 7. The price of the modern : Walter Benjamin and the counterfactuals / Christopher Prendergast
8. Composite cultures, chaos wor(l)ds : relational poetics, textual hybridity, and the future of opacity / Jonathan Monroe
9. Time, free verse, and the gods of modernism / Ian Patterson
10. Lost in nostalgia : modernity's repressed other / Wen-chin Ouyang
pt. III. The time of memory, the time of trauma: 11. No consolidation : the lamenting voice and public memory / Gail Holst-Warhaft
12. The abject eidos : trauma and the body in Sophocles' Electra / Jane Montgomery Griffiths
13. What's Hecuba to him ... that he should weep for her? / Jan Parker
14. Modernism's nostalgics, nostalgia's modernity / George Rousseau
15. Mediating trauma : how do we read the Holocaust memoirs? / Piotr Kuhiwczak
16. History as traumatic memory: Das Áfricas / Helena Buescu
17. Reading the invisible with Cees Nooteboom, Walter Benjamin, and Alberto Giacometti / Timothy Mathews
anyone look in both directions at once? / Timothy Mathews
Epilogue / Derek Attridge.