Tradition, translation, trauma: the classic and the modern

A collection of essays by a team of distinguished international contributors concerned with how Classic - mainly Greek and Latin but also Arabic and Portuguese - texts become present in later cultures; how they are passed on, received and affect over time and space, and how they resonate in the modern. INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-955459-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés