Paschalis Nikolaou

The Return of Pytheas

Scenes from British and Greek Poetry in Dialogue

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Return of Pytheas is a study of poetry and poems through and across two language traditions - Greek and English. While the main focus is recent and contemporary, exchanges reach back as far as Aeschylus and the Iliad. The book thus investigates Christopher Logue's long and extraordinary engagement with Homer, as well as the more sporadic and varied influences of Greek landscape and culture since the 1960s on English poets such as Richard Berengarten, Sebastian Barker, Kelvin Corcoran and Peter Riley. The special history of Cavafy in Britain is also explored, starting with E. M. Forster, and continuing through the poetry of John Ash, Evan Jones and Don Paterson. As scenes from Ted Hughes's revisiting of ancient drama are echoed in Alice Oswald's recent writing, manifold continuations of translation and versioning are shown to be essential parts of poets' lives and work. Across four chapters, populated with poems compelled by the sharing of reference and imagination, Paschalis Nikolaou delves into associations that are as constantly desired as they are auspiciously productive, including the endlessly varied conditions and factors that bring poets together. Nikolaou repeatedly locates intimate connections between literary cultures, as his analysis moves among extensive case studies, key meetings that emerge in and across time, and vistas threaded by poets as they pursue transfers of self, place, experience, and longing. The result is a close-range mapping of an entire community of poetic dialogues that are intensely lived as they are lived in, constantly revitalizing themselves as they carry into the 21st century.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Shearsman Books
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9781848615670
• ISBN-10: 1848615671
• Artikelnr.: 50850480

Autorenporträt

Paschalis Nikolaou is Associate Professor in Literary Translation at the Ionian University, Greece. He is author of the monograph 'The Return of Pytheas: Scenes from British and Greek Poetry in Dialogue' (2017) and of essays published in, among others: 'Translation and Creativity: Perspectives on Creative Writing and Translation Studies' (2006); 'Translating and Interpreting Conflict' (2007); and 'Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations' (2020). He has edited '12 Greek Poems After Cavafy' (2015) and 'Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature: Creativity, Translations and Critical Perspectives' (2020), guest edited 'Synthesis 12' ('Recomposed: Anglophone Presences of Classical Literature' (2019), and co-edited 'Translating Selves: Experience and Identity Between Languages and Literatures' (2008) and 'Richard Berengarten: A Portrait in Inter-Views' (2017). He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar for 2021 at the Department of Classics of The Ohio State University. His study, 'Creative Classical Translation' is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2023.