TRANSLATION OF POETRY & POETIC PROSE

Translation is a very important tool in our multilingual world. Excellent translation is a sine qua non in the work of the Swedish Academy, responsible for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In order to establish a forum for discussing fundamental aspects of the translation of poetry and poetic prose, a Nobel Symposium on this subject was organized.

The list of contributors includes Sture Allén, Jean Boase-Beier, Philippe Bouquet, Anders Cullhed, Gunnel Engwall, Eugene Eoyang, Efim Etkind, Inga-Stina Ewbank, Knut Faldbakken, Seamus Heaney, Lyn Hejinian, Bengt Jangfeldt, Francis R Jones, Elke Liebs, Gunilla Lindberg-Wada, Göran Malmqvist, Shimon Markish, Margaret Mitsutani, Judith Moffett, Mariya Novykova, Tim Parks, Ulla Roseen, Emmanuela Tandello, Eliot Weinberger, Daniel Weissbort, and Fran(oise Wuilmart.

Product details

• Authors: Allen Sture, Sture Allen
• Assisted by: Sture Allen (Editor), Sture Allén (Editor)
• Publisher: World Scientific
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.1999
• EAN: 9789810239220
• ISBN: 978-981-02-3922-0
• No. of pages: 366
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Proceedings of Nobel Symposium - General/Others; Proceedings of Nobel Symposium - General/Others; Proceedings of Nobel Symposium
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures