Translation and the Classic Identity as Change in the History of Culture

by Lianeri, Alexandra; Zajko, Vanda

• ISBN13: 9780199288076
• ISBN10: 0199288070
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Contemporary translation studies have explored translation not as a means of recovering a source text, but as a process of interpretation and production of literary meaning and value. Translation and the Classic uses this idea to discuss the relationship between translation and the classic text. It proposes a framework in which 'the classic' figures less as an autonomous entity than as the result of the interplay between source text and translation practice and examines the consequences of this hypothesis for questioning established definitions of the classic: how does translation mediate the social, political and national uses of 'the classics' in the contemporary global context of changing canons and traditions? The volume contains a total of eighteen original essays, plus an introduction, written by scholars working in classics and classical reception, translation studies, literary theory, comparative literature, theatre and performance studies, history and philosophy and makes a potent contribution to pressing debates in all of these areas.

Author Biography

Alexandra Lianeri is Moses Finley Fellow, Darwin College, University of Cambridge.
Vanda Zajko is Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Bristol.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Still Being Read after so Many Years: Rethinking the Classic through Translation, Alexandra Lianeri and Vanda Zajko

Theorising Translation and the Classic

Translation

Interpretation

Canon Formation

Lawrence Venuti

The End of Translation

John Sallis

Political Translations: Holderlin's Das Hochste

Andrew Benjamin

Dryden's Ovid

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

and Aesthetic Translation

Charles Martindale

Between Homage and Critique: Coetzee

Translation

and the Classic

Johan Geertsema

'Das Alterum das lasst sich nicht ubersetzen': Translation and Untranslatability in Ancient History

Neville Morley

Homer and Cinema: Translation and Adaptation in Le Mepris

Jo Paul

The Persistence of the Classic: Tracing the History of Translations

Classical Translations of the Classics: The Dynamics of Literary Tradition in Retranslating Epic Poetry

Richard Armstrong

Tradition

Translation

and Colonization: The Greco-Arabic Translation Movement and Deconstructing the Classics

Azzedine Haddour

Classic Simplicity

Fred Parker

Raising the Dead: Marlowe's Lucan

Dan Hooley

The Gates of Melbourne: Translating the Classic Play

J. Michael Walton

Translation and the 'Surreptitious Classic': Obscenity and Translatability

Deborah H. Roberts

Contesting the Classic: The Politics of Translation Practice

Navigating the Realms of Gold: Translation As Access Route to the Classics

Edith Hall

Translated Classics: Vibrant Hybrids or Shattered Icons?

Lorna Hardwick

Intralingual Translation: Genuine and False Dilemmas

Dimitris N. Maronitis

Translating Aeschylean Choral Lyric

Seth L. Schein

Working with Translators

J. M.Coetzee

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