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Second Finding

A Poetics of Translation

Barbara Folkart author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Ottawa Press

Published:6th Sep '07

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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 perspective, eschewing both the theoretical overkill that spawns mice out of mountains and the ideological misappropriation that uses poetry as a way to push agendas. The emphasis throughout is on process and the poem-to-come.

ISBN: 9780776606286

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm

Weight: 760g

588 pages