Mirror on mirror
Subtitle: translation, imitation, parody
By: Reuben Brower.
Series: Harvard studies in comparative literature ;; 33
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Translations; Classical literature -- Translations into English -- History and criticism; Classical languages -- Translations into English; Translating and interpreting -- England
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introd.: Translation as parody.; title: Verbal and visual translation of myth: Neptune in Virgil, Rubens, Dryden.; title: The Theban eagle in English plumage.; title: Pope's Iliad for twentieth-century readers.; title: From the Iliad to the novel via The rape of the lock.; title: A poet's Odyssey.; title: Dryden's epic manner and Virgil.; title: The heresy of plot.; title: Poetic and dramatic design in versions and translations of Shakespeare.; title: Seven Agamemnons.