Tradition, Translation, Trauma: The Classic and the Modern

by Timothy Mathews and Jan Parker

Tradition, Trauma, Translation is concerned with how Classic texts - mainly Greek and Latin but also Arabic and Portuguese - become present in later cultures and how they resonate in the modern. A distinguished international team of contributors and responders examine the topic in different ways. Some discuss singular encounters with the Classic - those of Heaney, Pope, Fellini, Freud, Ibn Qutayba, Cavafy and others - and show how translations engage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199554595
• ISBN13: 9780199554591
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.5"