description: In celebrating the academic career and practice of a distinguished scholar of French literature, this volume concentrates on one of Peter Broome’s major preoccupations and translation. Eschewing a dogmatic, theoretical approach, the contributors (former colleagues and students) tackle four rich areas of modern anglophone poets’ reactions to, and translations of, authors with whom they have closely identified (Racine, the Symbolists, Saint-John Perse, Valéry); problematics of translating specific poets of recent centuries (Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Valéry, Césaire, some contemporary poets); reception and interaction in two foreign countries (Australia, Spain); and a more fluid interpretation of translation, moving the notion across into wider realms of literary expression (Mallarmé, Proust, Assia Djebar). A focalising feature, punctuating the volume, are Peter Broome’s own translations of hitherto unpublished poems by five major contemporary French Jean-Paul Auxeméry, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Louise Herlin, Vénus Khoury-Ghata and Jean-Charles Vegliante. The book thus intertwines theory and practice in a non-prescriptive manner which invites further elaboration and analysis.
language: English
title: Challenges of Translation in French Literature: Studies and Poems in Honour of Peter Broome
titlecomplete: Challenges of Translation in French Literature: Studies and Poems in Honour of Peter Broome
publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften