Susanna Morton Braund

Translating Virgil

A Cultural History of the Western Tradition from the Eleventh Century to the Present

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Produktbeschreibung

"The first synthesis and analysis of the translation history of Roman poet Virgil's works into European languages. A wide-ranging interdisciplinary investigation that contributes to western intellectual history and challenges classicists and other literary scholars to reassess the features of Virgil's poems to which the translators respond"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 994
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108470612
• ISBN-10: 1108470610
• Artikelnr.: 67782038

Autorenporträt

Susanna Morton Braund is Professor Emeritus of Latin Poetry and its Reception at the University of British Columbia. She has published widely on Latin poetry and is the co-editor of Virgil in Translation (with Zara Torlone, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: First attempts and first principles
1. Translation, nationalism and transnationalism
2. The translator's identity
3. The economics of translating Virgil
4. Competition, retranslation and travesty
5. Poetic careers of Virgil translators
6. Partial translations of Virgil
7. Supplements and paratextual material
8. Fidelity of form: Metre matters
9. Fidelity of concepts and register
10. Equivalences and identifications.