Translating Virgil : a cultural history of the Western tradition from the eleventh century to the present / Susanna Morton Braund.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braund, Susanna Morton, author.

Series:

Classics after antiquity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virgil--Translations--History and criticism.

Virgil.

Translating and interpreting--Europe--History.

Translating and interpreting.

Translations.

Europe.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Physical Description:

xxix, 992 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"The first synthesis and analysis of the translation history of Roman poet Virgil's works into European languages. A wide-ranging interdisciplinary investigation that contributes to western intellectual history and challenges classicists and other literary scholars to reassess the features of Virgil's poems to which the translators respond"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : first attempts and first principles

Translation, nationalism and transnationalism

The translator's identity

The economics of translating Virgil

Competition, retranslation and travesty

Poetic careers of Virgil translators

Partial translations of Virgil

Supplements and paratextual materials

Fidelity of form : metre matters

Fidelity of concepts and register

Equivalences and identifications.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108470612

1108470610

9781108456265

110845626X

OCLC:

1373080138