| Description |
1 online resource (375 pages) |
| Series |
Classical Presences |
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Classical presences.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Prologue; Introduction: Images of Tradition, Translation, Trauma . . .; Part I. Handing on, Making Anew, Refusing the Classic; Part II. Modernity and its Price; Nostalgia and the Classic; Part III. The Time of Memory, the Time of Trauma; Conclusion: Can Anyone Look in Both Directions at Once?; Epilogue; Index |
| Summary |
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 affectiveimpact of texts over time and space. Poet-translator contributors draw on their own experience here. Others offer images of tra |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History
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Transmission of texts -- Europe -- History
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Translating and interpreting -- History
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Psychic trauma in literature
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Translating and interpreting
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Transmission of texts
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mathews, Timothy
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| ISBN |
9780191617607 |
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0191617601 |
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