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Zusatztext This is an immensely rich and wide-ranging volume, full of incisive, stimulating and moving accounts. It is unusual not only for its scope, but also (and this is far more rare) for the universally high quality of its contributions. Its riches will prove of immense value, perhaps especially to scholars in the field of Translation Studies, but also to the more general reader. Informationen zum Autor Jan Parker is Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Education Technology, Open University Timothy Mathews is Professor of French and Comparative Criticism, University College, London Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue Introduction: Images of Tradition, Translation, Trauma . . . I. Handing on, Making Anew, Refusing the Classic 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 Cees Nooteboom, Walter Benjamin and Alberto Giacometti Conclusion: Can Anyone Look in Both Directions at Once? Epilogue ...
