Carole Birkan-Berz, "Migration and Mutation: New Perspectives on the Sonnet in Translation "
English | ISBN: 150138046X | 2023 | 376 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 150138046X | 2023 | 376 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Spanning four centuries from the Renaissance to today's avant-garde, Migration and Mutation explores how the sonnet has evolved in and out of translation.
Contributors examine little-studied translation trajectories in the early modern period, such as the pivotal role of France between Italy and England or the first German sonnets and their Italian, French, Dutch and Scottish origins. Essays then shed new light on major European sonneteers In the 19th and 20th centuries, including Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Rilke and Pessoa, alongside lesser-known contemporaries and with novel approaches. And finally, contributors explore how translation and adaptation create metaphorical space in the 21st century.
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