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Piecing Together the Fragments - Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry (Hardcover)
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Piecing Together the Fragments - Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Presences
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In Piecing Together the Fragments, translator and poet Josephine
Balmer examines the art of classical translation from the
perspective of the practitioner. Positioning her study within the
long tradition of translator prefaces and introductions, Balmer
argues that such statements should be considered as much a part of
creative writing as literary theory. From translating Sappho and
other classical women poets, as well as Catullus and Ovid, to her
poetry collections inspired by classical literature, Balmer
discusses her relationship with her source texts and uncovers the
various strategies and approaches she has employed in their
transformations into English. In particular, she reveals how the
need for radical translation strategies in any rendition of
classical texts into English can inspire the poet/translator to new
poetic forms and approaches. Above all, she considers how, through
the masks or personae of ancient voices, such works offer writers a
means of expressing dangerous or difficult subject matter they
might not otherwise have been able to broach. A unique study of the
challenges and rewards of translating classical poetry, this volume
explores radical new ways in which creativity and scholarship might
overlap - and interact.
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