Tradition, Translation, Trauma

The Classic and the Modern
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-955459-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 661 g

Reihe: Classical Presences

Explores the relevance of traditional notions of canon, classical tradition, translation, and modernity
Presents the experiences of translation studies as a model for interdisciplinary thought and critical writing in the Humanities
Contextualized and theorized close readings and case studies show the engagement with texts to be an engagement with ideas
Includes specially written Prologue by Susan Bassnett, and Epilogue by Derek Attridge

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of classical, translation, and reception studies, comparative literature, literary history, the history of ideas, modernism and postmodernism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parker, Jan

Mathews, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Übersetzung, Editionstechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Susan Bassnett: Prologue
Jan Parker: Introduction: Images of Tradition, Translation, Trauma . . .
I. Handing on, Making Anew, Refusing the Classic
Frederick Ahl: Proemion: Translating a Paean of Praise
1: Lorna Hardwick: Fuzzy Connections: Classical Texts and Modern Poetry in English
2: David Hopkins: Pope's Trojan Geography
3: Pat Easterling: Sophoclean Journeys
4: Matthew Fox: Cicero: Gentleman and Orator: Metaphors in Eighteenth Century Reception
5: Richard Armstrong: Eating Eumolpus: Fellini Satyricon and Dreaming Tradition
6: Rachel Bowlby: After Freud. Sophocles's Oedipus in the Twenty-First Century
II. Modernity and its Price: Nostalgia and the Classic
7: Christopher Prendergast: The Price of the Modern: Walter Benjamin and Counterfactuals
8: Jonathan Monroe: Composite Cultures, Chaos Wor(l)ds: Relational Poetics, Textual Hybridity, and the Future of Opacity
9: Ian Patterson: Time, Free Verse and the Gods of Modernism
10: Wen-Chin Ouyang: Lost in Nostalgia: Modernity's Repressed Other
III. The Time of Memory, the Time of Trauma
11: Gail Holst-Warhaft: No Consolation: The Lamenting Voice and Public Memory
12: Jane Montgomery Griffiths: The Abject Eidos: Trauma and the Body in Sophocles' Electra
13: Jan Parker: What's Hecuba to him . . . that he should weep for her?
14: George Rousseau: Modernism's Nostalgics, Nostalgia's Modernity
15: Piotr Kuhiwczak: Mediating Trauma: How Do We Read the Holocaust Memoirs?
16: Helena Buescu: History as Traumatic Memory: Das Áfricas
17: Timothy Mathews: Reading the Invisible with Cess Nooteboom, Walter Benjamin and Alberto Giacometti
Timothy Mathews: Conclusion: Can Anyone Look in Both Directions at Once?
Derek Attridge: Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Jan Parker, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Educational Technology, Open University, and Timothy Mathews, Professor of French and Comparative Criticism, University College London

Contributors:
Frederick Ahl, Cornell University
Richard Armstrong, University of Houston
Derek Attridge, University of York
Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick
Rachel Bowlby, University College London
Helena Buescu, University of Lisbon
Pat Easterling, University of Cambridge
Matthew Fox, University of Glasgow
Jane Montgomery Griffiths, Monash University
Lorna Hardwick, The Open University
Gail Holst-Warhaft, Cornell University
David Hopkins, University of Bristol
Piotr Kuhiwczak, University of Warwick
Timothy Mathews, University College London
Jonathan Monroe, Cornell University
Wen-Chin Ouyang, SOAS, University of London
Jan Parker, The Open University
Ian Patterson, University of Cambridge
Christopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge
George Rousseau, University of Oxford