Transplantings - Essays on Great German Poets With Translations

Informationen zum Autor Peter Viereck Klappentext If translation is a special genre in its own right! the translation of poetry! especially from major foreign languages! is a special subset of that genre. This book provides insight into Viereck as a poet of substance! but more than that as a public intellectual. It shows that the passion of great poetry is part of a national tradition. Zusammenfassung On being told that "translation is an impossible thing," Anatole France replied: "precisely, my friend; the recognition of that truth is a necessary preliminary to success in art Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Background; 1: On Transplanting into New Gardens; 2: Notes on Stefan George and Georg Heym; 2: Stefan George; 3: George Seen by Fellow Germans of the 1930s; 4: Poems by Stefan George: Comments and Contexts; 5: Controversies about George; 6: George vs. Klages-Schuler: Context for Stefan George’s Poems “Nordics,” “Jews and Germans,” and “Templars”; 7: “Norbert”: Context for Hellingrath,Hölderlin, and George’s Disciples; 8: Deciphering “The Stranger”: A Detective Story; 9: The Maximin Series; 10: Poems by Stefan George; 3: Georg Heym; 11: The Sullen Lyricism of Georg Heym; 12: On Translating a Heym Poem; 13: Heym’s “War”; 14: Heym’s “Prayer”; 15: “Blue” and “Light”: A Heritage from Hölderlin and from Romanticism; 16: Heym’s “Post Mortem”; 17: Seven Poems by Georg Heym; 4: Related Poets; 18: Hofmannsthal, Benn, Hölderlin, and Others; 5: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; 19: A Goethe Sampler

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• Authors: Peter Viereck, Peter/ Horowitz Viereck
• Assisted by: Irving Louis Horowitz (Editor), Viereck Peter (Editor), Peter Viereck (Editor), Viereck Peter (Editor), Daniel Weissbort (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2008
• EAN: 9780765803948
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0394-8
• No. of pages: 314
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, german, Translation & interpretation, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Translation and interpretation