Translation and the classic : identity as change in the history of culture /

"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 tex...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lianeri, Alexandra, Zajko, Vanda
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:	Classical presences.
Subjects:	Classical literature > Translations > History and criticism. Transmission of texts. Littérature ancienne > Traductions > Histoire et critique. Transmission de textes. LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical. Classical literature > Translations Transmission of texts Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Still being read after so many years : rethinking the classic through translation / Alexandra Lianeri, Vanda Zajko
Translation, interpretation, canon formation / Lawrence Venuti
The end of translation / John Sallis
Political translations : Hölderlin's Das Höchste / Andrew Benjamin
Dryden's Ovid : aesthetic translation and the idea of the classic / Charles Martindale
Between homage and critique : Coetzee, translation, and the classic / Johan Geertsema
Das Altertum das lässt sich nicht übersetzen : translation and untranslatability in ancient history / Neville Morley
Homer and cinema : translation and adaptation in Le Mépris / Joanna Paul
Classical translations of the classics : the dynamics of literary tradition in retranslating epic poetry / Richard H. Armstrong
Tradition, translation and colonization : the Graeco-Arabic translation movement and deconstructing the classics / Azzedine Haddour
Classic simplicity / Fred Parker
Raising the dead : Marlowe's Lucan / Dan Hooley
An agreeable innovation : play and translation / J. Michael Walton
Translation and the 'surreptitious classic' : obscenity and translatability / Deborah H. Roberts
Navigating the realms of gold : translation as access route to the classics / Edith Hall
Translated classics around the millennium : vibrant hybrids or shattered icons? / Lorna Hardwick
Intralingual translation : genuine and false dilemmas / Dimitris N. Maronitis
Translating Aeschylean choral lyric : Agamemnon 367-474 / Seth L. Schein
Working with translators / J.M. Coetzee.