English Translation and Classical Reception
Towards a New Literary History
Classical Receptions
1. Auflage April 2011
224 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Kurzbeschreibung
This first book-length study of English translation as a topic in classical reception engages with the dialogues generated between individual translations and their source-texts, and also with the wide and deep tradition of which they form a part. English Translation and Classical Reception argues for a remapping of English literary history which would uncover the neglected history of classical translation from Chaucer to the present. Gillespie explores little-known and sometimes suppressed translated texts in terms of their implications for English literary history and for the interpretation of classical literature.
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 reception
* Draws on the author's exhaustive knowledge of English literary translation from the early Renaissance to the present
* Argues for a remapping of English literary history which would take proper account of the currently neglected history of classical translation, from Chaucer to the present
* Offers a widely ranging chronological analysis of English translation from ancient literatures
* Previously 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
Acknowledgements
Note on Texts
1. Making the Classics Belong: A Historical Introduction
2. Creative Translation
3. English Renaissance Poets and the Translating Tradition
4. Two-Way Reception: Shakespeare's Influence on Plutarch
5. Transformative Translation: Dryden's Horatian Ode
6. Statius and the Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Poetry
7. Classical Translation and the Formation of the English Literary Canon
8. Evidence for an Alternative History: Manuscript Translations of the Long Eighteenth Century
9. Receiving Wordsworth, Receiving Juvenal: Wordsworth's Suppressed Eighth Satire
10. The Persistence of Translations: Lucretius in the Nineteenth Century
11. 'Oddity and struggling dumbness': Ted Hughes's Homer
12. Afterword
References
Index of Ancient Authors and Passages
General Index
"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)