Piecing Together the Fragments

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  • Piecing Together the Fragments Book Detail

  • Author : Josephine Balmer
  • Release Date : 2013-09-26
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Genre : Literary Collections
  • Pages : 286
  • ISBN 13 : 0191665436
  • File Size : 62,62 MB
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Piecing Together the Fragments by Josephine Balmer PDF Summary

Book Description: In Piecing Together the Fragments, translator and poet Josephine Balmer examines the art of classical translation from the perspective of the practitioner. Positioning her study within the long tradition of translator prefaces and introductions, Balmer argues that such statements should be considered as much a part of creative writing as literary theory. From translating Sappho and other classical women poets, as well as Catullus and Ovid, to her poetry collections inspired by classical literature, Balmer discusses her relationship with her source texts and uncovers the various strategies and approaches she has employed in their transformations into English. In particular, she reveals how the need for radical translation strategies in any rendition of classical texts into English can inspire the poet/translator to new poetic forms and approaches. Above all, she considers how, through the masks or personae of ancient voices, such works offer writers a means of expressing dangerous or difficult subject matter they might not otherwise have been able to broach. A unique study of the challenges and rewards of translating classical poetry, this volume explores radical new ways in which creativity and scholarship might overlap - and interact.

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