The Translation and Transmission of Concrete Poetry (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032086122 ISBN 13: 9781032086125

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

This volume addresses the global reception of "untranslatable" concrete poetry. Featuring contributions from an international group of literary and translation scholars and practitioners, working across a variety of languages, the book views the development of the international concrete poetry movement through the lens of "transcreation", that is, the informed, creative response to the translation of playful, enigmatic, visual texts. Contributions range in subject matter from ancient Greek and Chinese pattern poems to modernist concrete poems from the Americas, Europe and Asia. This challenging body of experimental work offers creative challenges and opportunities to literary translators and unique pleasures to the sympathetic reader. Highlighting the ways in which literary influence is mapped across languages and borders, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of experimental poetry, translation studies and comparative literature.

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About the Author

John Corbett is a CAPES International Fellow and Visiting Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Sao Paulo. His numerous books and articles include Language and Scottish Literature (1997) and Written in the Language of the Scottish Nation: A History of Literary Translation into Scots (1999).

Ting Huang is a literary translator and doctoral candidate in the English Department of the University of Macau, where she took an MA in Translation Studies in the Portuguese Department and her Bachelor’s degree in Portuguese Studies. She has translated Azul Corvo, by the Brazilian novelist, Adriana Lisboa (2019).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032086122
• ISBN 13: 9781032086125
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244
• Editor: Corbett John, Huang Ting