Tradition, translation, trauma
Subtitle: the classic and the modern
By: edited by Jan Parker, Timothy Mathews
Series: Classical presences; Classical presences
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780199554591
Subjects: Translating and interpreting; Psychic trauma in literature; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Transmission of texts; History
Description: This is a collection of essays by a team of international contributors concerned with how Classic - mainly Greek and Latin but also Arabic and Portuguese - texts become present in later cultures; how they are passed on, received and affect over time and space, and how they resonate in the modern.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue / -- Susan Bassnett -- Introduction:; title: Images of tradition, translation, trauma...  -- Jan Parker -- Pt. I.; title: Handing on, making anew, refusing the classic:; title: Proemion : translating a paean of praise  -- Frederick Ahl -- 1.; title: Fuzzy connections : classical texts and modern poetry in English  -- Lorna Hardwick -- 2.; title: Pope's Trojan geography  -- David Hopkins -- 3.; title: Sophoclean journeys  -- Pat Easterling -- 4.; title: Cicero : gentleman and orator : metaphors in eighteenth-century reception  -- Matthew Fox -- 5.; title: Eating Eumolpus : Fellini Satyricon and dreaming tradition  -- Richard Armstrong -- 6.; title: After Freud : Sophocles' Oedipus in the twenty-first century  -- Rachel Bowlby -- pt. II.; title: Modernity and its price : nostalgia and the classic: -- 7.; title: The price of the modern : Walter Benjamin and the counterfactuals  -- Christopher Prendergast -- 8.; title: Composite cultures, chaos wor(l)ds : relational poetics, textual hybridity, and the future of opacity  -- Jonathan Monroe -- 9.; title: Time, free verse, and the gods of modernism  -- Ian Patterson -- 10.; title: Lost in nostalgia : modernity's repressed other  -- Wen-chin Ouyang -- pt. III.; title: The time of memory, the time of trauma: -- 11.; title: No consolidation : the lamenting voice and public memory  -- Gail Holst-Warhaft -- 12.; title: The abject eidos : trauma and the body in Sophocles' Electra  -- Jane Montgomery Griffiths -- 13.; title: What's Hecuba to him ... that he should weep for her?  -- Jan Parker -- 14.; title: Modernism's nostalgics, nostalgia's modernity  -- George Rousseau -- 15.; title: Mediating trauma : how do we read the Holocaust memoirs?  -- Piotr Kuhiwczak -- 16.; title: History as traumatic memory: Das Áfricas  -- Helena Buescu -- 17.; title: Reading the invisible with Cees Nooteboom, Walter Benjamin, and Alberto Giacometti -- Timothy Mathews --anyone look in both directions at once? /-- Timothy Mathews-- Epilogue /-- Derek Attridge.