Translation as Muse: Poetic Translation in Catullus's Rome
Elizabeth Marie Young
Poetry is often understood as a form that resists translation. Translation as Muse questions this truism, arguing for translation as a defining condition of Catullus's poetry and for this aggressively marginal poet's centrality to comprehending cultural transformation in first-century Rome. Young approaches translation from several different angles including the translation of texts, the translation of genres, and translatio in the form of the pan-Mediterranean transport of people, goods, and poems. Throughout, she contextualizes Catullus's corpus within the cultural foment of Rome's first-century imperial expansion, viewing his work as emerging from the massive geopolitical shifts that marked the era. Young proposes that reading Catullus through a translation framework offers a number of significant rewards: it illuminates major trends in late Republican culture, it reconfigures our understanding of translation history, and it calls into question some basic assumptions about lyric poetry, the genre most closely associated with Catullus's eclectic oeuvre.
წელი:
2015
გამომცემლობა:
University of Chicago Press
ენა:
english
გვერდები:
288
ISBN 10:
022627991X
ISBN 13:
9780226279916
ფაილი:
PDF, 1.07 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2015