Tradition, Translation, Trauma

Abstract

This book is concerned with how Classic texts — mainly Greek and Latin but also Arabic and Portuguese — become present in later cultures and how they resonate in the modern. This book examines the topic in different ways. Some discuss singular encounters with the Classic — those of Heaney, Pope, Fellini, Freud, IbnQutayba, Cavafy and others — and show how translations engage with the affective impact of texts over time and space. Chapters offer images of translation: as movement of a text over time, space, language, and culture. Some of these images are resistant, even violent: tradition as si ... More

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