Poetry and Translation in Northern Ireland Dislocations in Contemporary Writing

by Homem, Rui Carvalho

• ISBN13: 9780230221161
• ISBN10: 0230221165
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book provides an integrated reading of the poems and translations published by five prominent contemporary Northern Irish poets: Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson.

Author Biography

Rui Carvalho Homem is Professor of English at the University of Porto, Portugal.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vi
Introduction: On Rewriting as Dislocation	p. 1
Anæepoch of spaceÆ?	p. 4
Place and text, home and elsewhere	p. 7
The scope of translation	p. 12
Culture of shadows	p. 18
Authority and Freedom	p. 23
From furrow to jet stream: The lineaments of imagination	p. 25
Of banishment, joy, and damnation: Afterwritings	p. 36
Of Containment and Unmeasure	p. 66
Forms and sites of disaffection	p. 69
Translation and the uprooted voice	p. 79
Versions of Compassion	p. 100
Human(e) locations	p. 104
The empathies of rewriting	p. 114
Words in Transit	p. 133
Deformation, displacement, liminality	p. 137
Transition, transmutation, traduction	p. 147
The Hand, the Voice, the Map	p. 166
A poetics of wandering	p. 168
Crossings and circuits: Text, space and translation	p. 179
Conclusions - and Some Extensions	p. 198
Notes	p. 211
Bibliography	p. 228
Index	p. 246
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