The Magic Mirror of Literary Translation

Reflections on the Art of Translating Verse

Eric Sellin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

128 Seiten

2021
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-3703-5 (ISBN)

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Invites readers to explore the daunting and often unsung work of literary translators. With wry humour and an engaging conversational style, Sellin shares his insight on the art and science of translation, including the many nuanced solutions he's developed for some of the more sensitive problems that frustrate translators of formal poetry.

Sellin invites readers to explore the daunting and often unsung work of literary translators. With wry humor and an engaging conversational style, Sellin shares his insight on the art and science of translation, including the many nuanced solutions he's developed for some of the more sensitive problems that frustrate translators of formal poetry. The essays offer a balance of commentary on structural challenges as well as linguistic and aesthetic issues, giving readers practical and theoretical advice gained from a long career as a professor, poet, editor, and translator.

Eric Sellin is emeritus professor of French at Tulane University. He is the author and translator of numerous books, including cotranslator of Arabs and the Art of Storytelling: A Strange Familiarity.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2020
Zusatzinfo	7 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Gewicht	333 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8156-3703-9 / 0815637039
ISBN-13	978-0-8156-3703-5 / 9780815637035
Zustand	Neuware