English translation and classical reception
Subtitle: towards a new literary history
By: Stuart Gillespie
Series: Classical receptions
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781405199018
Subjects: Translations into English; Appreciation; Translating and interpreting; English literature; History and criticism; Classical literature; Classical influences; History
Description: English Translation and Classical Reception is the first genuine cross-disciplinary study bringing English literary history to bear on questions about the reception of classical literary texts, and vice versa. The text draws on the author's exhaustive knowledge of the subject from the early Renaissance to the present.nglish Translation and Classical Reception is the first genuine cross-disciplinary study bringing English literary history to bear on questions about the reception of classical literary texts, and vice versa. The text draws on the author's exhaustive knowledge of the subject from the early Renaissance to the present.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-199) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Making the classics belong: a historical introduction; title: Creative translation; title: English Renaissance poets and the translating tradition; title: Two-way reception: Shakespeare's influence on Plutarch; title: Transformative translation: Dryden's Horatian ode; title: Statius and the aesthetics of eighteenth-century poetry; title: Classical translation and the formation of the English literary canon; title: Evidence for an alternative history: manuscript translations of the long eighteenth century; title: Receiving Wordsworth, receiving Juvenal: Wordsworth's suppressed eighth satire; title: The persistence of translations: Lucretius in the nineteenth century; title: Oddity and struggling dumbness: Ted Hughes's Homer.