Translation as Muse : Poetic Translation in Catullus's Rome / Elizabeth Marie Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Elizabeth Marie, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catullus, Gaius Valerius.

Greek poetry--Translations--History and criticism.

Greek poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Poetry 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Finding Catullus in Translation

1. The Task of Translation in Catullus 64

2. Excavating the Poetic Emporium: Material and Cultural Capital in the Polymetrics

3. Catullus 4 and the Demographics of Late- Republican Alexandrianism

4. Intimate Acts of Reading: Imitation and Self- Expression in the Translation Prefaces (50 and 65)

5. Constructing Callimachus

6. Surpassing the Gods: Infatuation and Agonism in Catullus's Sappho (51)

Epilogue. Toward a Poetics of Lyric Appropriation

Bibliography

General Index

Index of Catullan Poems Discussed

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226280080

022628008X

OCLC:

915059391