Translation as Muse: Poetic Translation in Catullus's RomePoetry is often said to resist translation, its integration of form and meaning rendering even the best translations problematic. Elizabeth Marie Young disagrees, and with Translation as Muse, she uses the work of the celebrated Roman poet Catullus to mount a powerful argument that translation can be an engine of poetic invention. Catullus has long been admired as a poet, but his efforts as a translator have been largely ignored. Young reveals how essential translation is to his work: many poems by Catullus that we tend to label as lyric originals were in fact shaped by Roman translation practices entirely different from our own. By rereading Catullus through the lens of translation, Young exposes new layers of ingenuity in Latin poetry even as she illuminates the idiosyncrasies of Roman translation practice, reconfigures our understanding of translation history, and questions basic assumptions about lyric poetry itself. |
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Contents
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1 The Task of Translation in Catullus 64 | 24 |
Material and Cultural Capital in the Polymetrics | 52 |
3 Catullus 4 and the Demographics of Late Republican Alexandrianism | 89 |
Imitation and SelfExpression in the Translation Prefaces 50 and 65 | 116 |
5 Constructing Callimachus | 139 |
Infatuation and Agonism in Catulluss Sappho 51 | 166 |
Toward a Poetics of Lyric Appropriation | 182 |
| 235 | |
| 253 | |
Index of Catullan Poems Discussed | 259 |
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| Title | Translation as Muse: Poetic Translation in Catullus's Rome |
| Author | Elizabeth Marie Young |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press, 2015 |
| ISBN | 022628008X, 9780226280080 |
| Length | 288 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Ancient / Rome Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Poetry |
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