Translation and the languages of modernism : gender, politics, language / Steven G. Yao.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yao, Steven G., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

xii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Summary:

This study examines the practice and functions of literary translation in Anglo-American modernism. Rather than approaching translation as a trans-historical procedure for reproducing semantic meaning between different languages, Yao discusses how modernist writers both conceived and employed translation as a complex strategy for accomplishing such feats as exploring the relationship between gender and poetry, creating an authentic national culture, and determining the nature of a just government, all of which in turn led to developments in both poetic and novelistic form. Thus, translation emerges in this study as a literary practice crucial to the very development of Anglo-American modernism.

Contents:

Introduction: "every allegedly great age": Modernism and the Practice of Literary Translation 1

Part I Translation and Gender

Chapter 1 "to-day's men are not the men of the old days": Ezra Pound's Cathay and the Invention of Modernist Literary Translation 25

Chapter 2 "My genius is no more than a girl": Exploring the Erotic in Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius 52

Chapter 3 "from Greece into Egypt": Translation and the Engendering of H. D.'s Poetry 79

Part II Translation and Politics

Chapter 4 "Uplift Our State": Yeats, Oedipus, and the Translation of a National Dramatic Form 117

Chapter 5 "better gift can no man make to a nation": Pound, Confucius, and the Translation of Politics in The Cantos 153

Part III Translation and Language

Chapter 6 "transluding from the Otherman": Translation and the Language of Finnegans Wake 191

Chapter 7 "dent those reprobates, Romulus and Remus!": Lowell, Zukofsky, and the Legacies of Modernist Translation 209

Appendix Transcription of Notes for "Ballad of the Mulberry Road" from the Fenollosa Notebooks 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [248]-285) and index.

ISBN:

0312295197

OCLC:

49698883