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Informationen zum Autor Lorna Hardwick is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open Unversity. Klappentext Examines the literary and cultural environment underlying various kinds of translations Vorwort This book examines the literary and cultural circumstances underlying various kinds of translation of Greek and Latin literature, if they are creative works in their own right and their impact on modern writers. Zusammenfassung Never have there been so many different types of translations of Greek and Latin literature into English. Most people experience Homer and Greek tragedy for the first time through translations. New versions of Vergil and Ovid have become best sellers. This book examines the literary and cultural environment underlying the various kinds of translation - from 'faithful' and 'equivalent' through 'imitation' to 'adaptation' and 'version' - discussing the extent to which translations have been regarded as creative work in their own right and their impact in the work of modern writers such as Harrison, Heaney, Hughes and Walcott. Key themes include the challenge presented by translations to conventional interpretations of the classical canon; the implications of translating across genres - for example in the staging of epic; and the role of translations in twentieth-century conflicts. Lorna Hardwick suggests that translations from Greek and Latin literature are catalysts in the refiguring of both poetic and political awareness and that in transplanting myths and metaphors into disparate cultures, translations energise new senses of cultural identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements /1. The Battles of Translation 2. Reverence and Subversion in Nineteenth-Century Translation 3. The View form Translation: Image, Window and Dissection 4. Translation as Critique and Intervention 5. Translation and Cultural Politics: The Irish Dimension 6. Walcott's Philoctete: Imaging the Post-Colonial Condition 7. Translating Genres (i) 8. Translating Genres (ii) Coda Notes Bibliography Index of Names...
