Translation as Muse
Subtitle: Poetic Translation in Catullus's Rome
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Sep 05, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226279916
Description: Poetry is often said to resist translation, its integration of form and meaning rendering even the best translations problematic. Elizabeth Marie Young disagrees, and with 'Translation as Muse', she uses the work of the celebrated Roman poet Catullus to mount a powerful argument that translation can be an engine of poetic invention.
Notes: Source title: Translation as Muse: Poetic Translation in Catullus's Rome