Translation and the classic : identity as change in the history of culture / edited by Alexandra Lianeri and Vanda Zajko.

Other author Lianeri, Alexandra.
Other author Zajko, Vanda.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Descriptionxii, 435 pages ; 24 cm.
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SeriesClassical presences
Classical presences. ^A611052
Contents Still being read after so many years: rethinking the classic through translation / Alexandra Lianeri and Vanda Zajko -- Translation, interpretation, canon formation / Lawrence Venuti -- The end of translation / John Sallis -- Political translations : Holderlin's Das Hochste / Andrew Benjamin -- Dryden's Ovid : aesthetic translation and the idea of the classic / Charles Martindale -- Between homage and critique : Coetzee, translation and the classic / Johan Geertsema -- Das Altertum das lasst sich nicht ubersetzen : translation and untranslatability in ancient history / Neville Morley -- Homer and cinema : translation and adaptation in Le Mepris / Joanna Paul -- Classical translations of the classics : the dynamics of literary tradition in retranslating epic poetry / Richard H. Armstrong -- Tradition, translation and colonization : the Graeco-Arabic translation movement and deconstructing the classics / Azzedine Haddour -- Classic simplicity / Fred Parker -- Raising the dead : Marlowe's Lucan / Dan Hooley -- An agreeable innovation : play and translation / J. Michael Walton -- Translation and the surreptitious classic : obscenity and translatability / Deborah H. Roberts -- Navigating the realms of gold : translation as access route to the classics / Edith Hall -- Translated classics around the millennium : vibrant hybrids or shattered icons? / Lorna Hardwick -- Intralingual translation : genuine and false dilemmas / Dimitris N. Maronitis -- Translating Aeschylean choral lyric : Agamemnon 367-474 / Seth L. Schein -- Working with translators / J.M. Coetzee.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008009782
ISBN9780199288076
ISBN0199288070