Translating Myself and Others (eBook)

Jhumpa Lahiri (Autor)

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2022
208 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23860-9 (ISBN)

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Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid's myth of Echo and Narcissus to explore the distinction between writing and translating, and provides a close reading of passages from Aristotle's Poetics to talk more broadly about writing, desire, and freedom. She traces the theme of translation in Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks and takes up the question of Italo Calvino's popularity as a translated author. Lahiri considers the unique challenge of translating her own work from Italian to English, the question ';Why Italian?,' and the singular pleasures of translating contemporary and ancient writers.Featuring essays originally written in Italian and published in English for the first time, as well as essays written in English, Translating Myself and Others brings together Lahiri's most lyrical and eloquently observed meditations on the translator's art as a sublime act of both linguistic and personal metamorphosis.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.5.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Adjective • Adverb • Aestheticism • afterword • Allusion • American Literature • Analogy • Anaphora (rhetoric) • Anatole Broyard • Ancient Greek • Annotation • Antonio Gramsci • Audiobook • author • awareness • Between the Acts • Catullus • Cesare Pavese • Civilization • Close reading • Clothing • Cognate • Communication • conceit • Contraction (grammar) • Cosmopolitanism • Creative Writing • Cultural diversity • cultural translation • Cyrillic script • depiction • Dialect • Dialectic • dictionary • Discernment • Disciplina • Editing • Edition (book) • Elena Ferrante • emoticon • English Language • Epigraph (literature) • Essay • Explanation • Fiction • First Things • Genre • G. K. Chesterton • Glossary • G. (novel) • grammar • Grammatical Mood • Hairstyle • Headline • Humour • idem • Ideology • Idiom • Illustration • Illustrator • imagism • implementation • I Novel • In Parenthesis • interpreter of maladies • Intertextuality • Italo Calvino • jhumpa lahiri • Jorge Luis Borges • Joseph McElroy • Kachina • Kate Lechmere • Lament • language • Latin Poetry • Lecture • Leonora Carrington • Lingua (journal) • Lingua (play) • Linguistics • Linguistic System • listening • literal translation • Literary Hub • Literary language • Literature • Measurement • Metaphor • Mneme • monologue • Mr. Palomar • National Language • newspaper • Note (typography) • noun • novelist • novella • Observation • Orbe • Osbert Sitwell • Parody • Participle • Paul Muldoon • petrarch • Philosophy • Phrase (music) • Poet • Poetry • Precedent • preface • Preposition and postposition • Processing (programming language) • Pronunciation • proofreading • Prose • proverb • Publication • Publishing • Puebloan peoples • Reading (process) • Recipe • Repetition (rhetorical device) • reply • Romance languages • Sanskrit • Satire • Scholarship • Scrutiny (journal) • Self-Translation • Semiotics • sensibility • Sentence (linguistics) • Short Story • Sincerity • Spoken Language • Storytelling • Subjectivity • subjunctive mood • Suggestion • Supplement (publishing) • temporality • The Other Hand • Thesis • The translator • The Various • Thought • Translation • Transliteration • treatise • typesetting • Understanding • Verb • welding • Writer • Writing • Wyndham Lewis
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23860-X / 069123860X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23860-9 / 9780691238609