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Second Finding: A Poetics of Translation (Perspectives on Translation)
Barbara Folkart
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Description for Second Finding: A Poetics of Translation (Perspectives on Translation)
Paperback. The translation of poetry has always fascinated the theorists, as the chances of replicating in another language the one-off resonance of music, imagery, and truth values of a poem are negligible. This title offers essays that focus on the poetically viable translation - the derived poem that, while resonating with the original, really is a poem. Series: Perspectives on Translation. Num Pages: 588 pages. BIC Classification: CFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 760.
The translation of poetry has always fascinated the theorists, as the chances of 'replicating' in another language the one-off resonance of music, imagery, and truth values of a poem are vanishingly small. Translation is often envisaged as a matter of mapping over into the target language the surface features or semiotic structures of the source poem. Little wonder, then, that the vast majority of translations fail to be poetry in their own right. These essays focus on the poetically viable translation - the derived poem that, while resonating with the original, really is a poem. They proceed from a writerly ... Read more
The translation of poetry has always fascinated the theorists, as the chances of 'replicating' in another language the one-off resonance of music, imagery, and truth values of a poem are vanishingly small. Translation is often envisaged as a matter of mapping over into the target language the surface features or semiotic structures of the source poem. Little wonder, then, that the vast majority of translations fail to be poetry in their own right. These essays focus on the poetically viable translation - the derived poem that, while resonating with the original, really is a poem. They proceed from a writerly ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Perspectives on Translation
Condition
New
Weight
760g
Number of Pages
588
Place of Publication
Ottawa, Canada
ISBN
9780776606286
SKU
V9780776606286
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About Barbara Folkart
Barbara Folkart is adjunct professor of the School of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Ottawa, where she taught full-time from 1980 to 2000. She is a practicing poet and her work has been published in numerous poetry reviews in Canada and the United Kingdom.
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