English Translation and Classical Reception

Towards a New Literary History

AvStuart Gillespie

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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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. The first book-length study of English translation as a topic in classical receptionDraws on the author’s exhaustive knowledge of English literary translation from the early Renaissance to the presentArgues for a remapping of English literary history which would take proper account of the currently neglected history of classical translation, from Chaucer to the presentOffers a widely ranging chronological analysis of English translation from ancient literaturesPreviously little-known, unknown, and sometimes suppressed translated texts are recovered from manuscripts and explored in terms of their implications for English literary history and for the interpretation of classical literature

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-04-18
Mått:179 x 254 x 18 mm
Vikt:581 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Classical Receptions
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781405199018

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THE AUTHOR STUART GILLESPIE is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. His recent publications include Shakespeare's Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources (2001), Shakespeare and Elizabethan Popular Culture, edited with Neil Rhodes (2006), and The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius, edited with Philip Hardie (2007). He edits the journal Translation and Literature and is co-editor of the Oxford History of Literary Translation in English.

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“Stuart Gillespie’s English Translation and Classical Reception is a beneficiary of this ferment, supplemented by the author’s comprehensive knowledge of translation history, translation theory, and the growing bibliography in his field.” (Modern Philology, 1 August 2014)"Overall, this volume will be a key resource for the study of creative translation of classical texts in English, and thoroughly succeeds in emphasising its importance in the history of English literature. Its author's unmatched grasp of the range of the source material is a great benefit...." (Bmcreview, 8 February 2012)“Taken together, the various case studies of the book express an energetic engagement with the rich inheritance of classical literature and its complex role in and through English translation.” (CJ-Online, 5 September 2012)

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Preface viAcknowledgements viiiNote on Texts x1. Making the Classics Belong: A Historical Introduction 12. Creative Translation 203. English Renaissance Poets and the Translating Tradition 334. Two-Way Reception: Shakespeare’s Influence on Plutarch 475 Transformative Translation: Dryden’s Horatian Ode 606. Statius and the Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Poetry 767. Classical Translation and the Formation of the English Literary Canon 938. Evidence for an Alternative History: Manuscript Translations of the Long Eighteenth Century 1049. Receiving Wordsworth, Receiving Juvenal: Wordsworth’s Suppressed Eighth Satire 12310. The Persistence of Translations: Lucretius in the Nineteenth Century 15011. ‘Oddity and struggling dumbness’: Ted Hughes’s Homer 16312. Afterword 180References 183Index of Ancient Authors and Passages 200General Index 203