Second Finding - A Poetics of Translation

Informationen zum Autor Barbara Folkart is adjunct professor of the School of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Ottawa, where she taught full-time from 1980 to 2000. She is a practicing poet and her work has been published in numerous poetry reviews in Canada and the United Kingdom. Klappentext The translation of poetry has always fascinated theorists, as the hope of "replicating" in another language the music, imagery, and truth of a poem is vanishingly small. These essays focus on the poetically viable translation - the derived poem that, while resonating with the original, really is a poem. Zusammenfassung The translation of poetry has always fascinated the theorists! as the chances of replicating in another language the one-off resonance of music! imagery! and truth values of a poem are negligible. This title offers essays that focus on the poetically viable translation - the derived poem that! while resonating with the original! really is a poem.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Folkart, Barbara Folkart
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.12.2006
• EAN: 9780776606286
• ISBN: 978-0-7766-0628-6
• No. of pages: 562
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Perspectives on Translation; Perspectives on Translation
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics