English translation and classical reception : towards a new literary history /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Gillespie, Stuart, 1958-
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Σειρά: Classical receptions.
• Θέματα: Classical literature > Translations into English > History and criticism.; Classical literature > Appreciation > Great Britain > History.; English literature > Classical influences.; Translating and interpreting > Great Britain > History.; LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.; Classical literature > Appreciation.; Classical literature > Translations into English.; Translating and interpreting.; Great Britain.; Electronic books.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; History.

English Translation and Classical Reception is the first genuine cross-disciplinary study bringing English literary history to bear on questions about the reception of classical literary texts, and vice versa. The text draws on the author's exhaustive knowledge of the subject from the early Ren...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Front Matter
• Making the Classics Belong: A Historical Introduction
• Creative Translation
• English Renaissance Poets and the Translating Tradition
• Two-Way Reception: Shakespeare's Influence on Plutarch
• Transformative Translation: Dryden's Horatian Ode
• Statius and the Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Poetry
• Classical Translation and the Formation of the English Literary Canon
• Evidence for an Alternative History: Manuscript Translations of the Long Eighteenth Century
• Receiving Wordsworth, Receiving Juvenal: Wordsworth's Suppressed Eighth Satire
• The Persistence of Translations: Lucretius in the Nineteenth Century
• ₁Oddity and struggling dumbness₂: Ted Hughes's Homer
• Afterword
• References
• Index of Ancient Authors and Passages
• General Index.
• Making the classics belong: a historical introduction
• Creative translation
• English Renaissance poets and the translating tradition
• Two-way reception: Shakespeare's influence on Plutarch
• Transformative translation: Dryden's Horatian ode
• Statius and the aesthetics of eighteenth-century poetry
• Classical translation and the formation of the English literary canon
• Evidence for an alternative history: manuscript translations of the long eighteenth century
• Receiving Wordsworth, receiving Juvenal: Wordsworth's suppressed eighth satire
• The persistence of translations: Lucretius in the nineteenth century
• Oddity and struggling dumbness: Ted Hughes's Homer.