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William Radice and Barbara Reynolds, eds.
The Translator's Art: Essays in Honour of Betty Radice.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987.
ISBN 0140092269;
ISBN-13: 9780140092264.
Paperback, perfect bound.
132x214x20mm.
281pp inc. 2 monochrome illustrations.
English.
Fair condition: some creasing to the spine, text pages rather yellowed.This item £12.50
357g.
No medieval emphasis, a collection of essays honouring one of the guiding lights behind the Penguin Classics series and exploring the problems and pleasures of literary translation. Contents:
William Radice Introduction;
Margaret Wynn, Betty Radice - a memoir;
Michael Alexander, trans. The Wanderer;
Arthur Cooper, The oldest Chinese poetry;
Jeffrey Gantz, Translating the Mabinogion & early Irish tales;
David Goldstein, On translating God's name;
Michael Grant, Translating Latin prose;
Peter Green, Metre, fidelity, sex - the problems confronting a translator of Ovid's love poetry;
Walter Hamilton, Classical prose at its extremes;
Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, On translating Sanskrit myths;
Barbara Reynolds, The pleasure craft;
N. K. Sandars, Peculiar problems in translating very early texts;
Trevor J. Saunders, The Penguinification of Plato;
W. G. Shepherd, For Horace & Propertius;
Brian Stone, False friends & strange metres;
J. P. Sullivan, Appropriating Petronius;
Philip Vellacott, Translating Greek tragedy;
Benedicta Ward, Translator's charity;
Peter Wigham, Notes on translating Catallus;
Nobuyuyki Yuasa, Translating "the sound of water" - different versions of a hokku by Basho;
Betty Radice, The sayings of the seven sages of Greece;
Betty Radice, Envoi - Folly speaks.
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