- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Proemion
- 1 Fuzzy Connections
- 2 Pope’s Trojan Geography
- 3 Sophoclean Journeys
- 4 Cicero: Gentleman and Orator
- 5 Eating Eumolpus
- 6 After Freud
- 7 The Price of the Modern
- 8 Composite Cultures, Chaos Wor(l)ds
- 9 Time, Free Verse, and the Gods of Modernism
- 10 Lost in Nostalgia
- 11 No Consolation
- 12 The Abject Eidos
- 13 What’s Hecuba to him…that he should weep for her?
- 14 Modernism’s Nostalgics, Nostalgia’s Modernity
- 15 Mediating Trauma
- 16 History as Traumatic Memory
- 17 Reading the Invisible with Cees Nooteboom, Walter Benjamin, and Alberto Giacometti
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Index
Introduction
Introduction
Images of Tradition, Translation, Trauma…
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- Tradition, Translation, Trauma
- Author(s):
Jan Parker
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book’s main themes: tradition, translation, and trauma. It discusses images of translation as movement of a text over time, space, language, and culture; translation as process and as product; translation as metaphors; and what is traumatized in and by translation.
Keywords: translation, trauma, tradition, metaphors
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Proemion
- 1 Fuzzy Connections
- 2 Pope’s Trojan Geography
- 3 Sophoclean Journeys
- 4 Cicero: Gentleman and Orator
- 5 Eating Eumolpus
- 6 After Freud
- 7 The Price of the Modern
- 8 Composite Cultures, Chaos Wor(l)ds
- 9 Time, Free Verse, and the Gods of Modernism
- 10 Lost in Nostalgia
- 11 No Consolation
- 12 The Abject Eidos
- 13 What’s Hecuba to him…that he should weep for her?
- 14 Modernism’s Nostalgics, Nostalgia’s Modernity
- 15 Mediating Trauma
- 16 History as Traumatic Memory
- 17 Reading the Invisible with Cees Nooteboom, Walter Benjamin, and Alberto Giacometti
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Index