Translating Virgil - A Cultural History of Western Tradition From Eleventh Century to

"The first synthesis and analysis of the translation history of Roman poet Virgil's works into European languages. A wide-ranging interdisciplinary investigation that contributes to western intellectual history and challenges classicists and other literary scholars to reassess the features of Virgil's poems to which the translators respond"--

List of contents

Introduction: First attempts and first principles; 1. Translation, nationalism and transnationalism; 2. The translator's identity; 3. The economics of translating Virgil; 4. Competition, retranslation and travesty; 5. Poetic careers of Virgil translators; 6. Partial translations of Virgil; 7. Supplements and paratextual material; 8. Fidelity of form: Metre matters; 9. Fidelity of concepts and register; 10. Equivalences and identifications.

About the author

Susanna Morton Braund is Professor Emeritus of Latin Poetry and its Reception at the University of British Columbia. She has published widely on Latin poetry and is the co-editor of Virgil in Translation (with Zara Torlone, 2018).

Summary

The first synthesis and analysis of the translation history of Roman poet Virgil's works into European languages. A wide-ranging interdisciplinary investigation that contributes to western intellectual history and challenges classicists and other literary scholars to reassess the features of Virgil's poems to which the translators respond.

Product details

• Authors: Susanna Morton Braund, Susanna Morton (University of British Colu Braund, Susanna Morton (University of British Columbia Braund
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781108470612
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47061-2
• No. of pages: 994
• Series: Classics after Antiquity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; POETRY / General, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Classic and pre-20th century poetry, Poetry / poems by individual poets