Tradition, Translation, Trauma: The Classic and the Modern (Classical Presences) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199554595 ISBN 13: 9780199554591

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2011

Synopsis

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 affective impact of texts over time and space. Poet-translator contributors draw on their own experience here. Others offer images of translation: as movement of a text over time, space, language, and culture. Some of these images are resistant, even violent: tradition as silencing, translation as decapitation, cannibalistic reception. Others pose searching questions about the interaction of modernity with tradition: what is entailed in 'The Price of the Modern'? Drawing, as it does, on Classical, Modernist, Translation, Reception, Comparative Literary, and Intercultural Studies, the volume has the potential to suggest critiques of practice in these disciplines but also concerns that are common to all these fields.

About this title

About the Author

Jan Parker is Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Education Technology, Open University

Timothy Mathews is Professor of French and Comparative Criticism, University College, London

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199554595
• ISBN 13: 9780199554591
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Parker Jan, Mathews Timothy