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 Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. |
| Description | xii, 435 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Series | Classical 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2008009782 |
| ISBN | 9780199288076 |
| ISBN | 0199288070 |