UID:
almahu_9949545098502882
Format:
1 online resource (208 p.)
ISBN:
9780691238609
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9783110993899
Content:
Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by the award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid's myth of Echo and Narcissus to explore the distinction between writing and translating, and provides a close reading of passages from Aristotle's Poetics to talk more broadly about writing, desire, and freedom. She traces the theme of translation in Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks and takes up the question of Italo Calvino's popularity as a translated author. Lahiri considers the unique challenge of translating her own work from Italian to English, the question "Why Italian?," and the singular pleasures of translating contemporary and ancient writers.Featuring essays originally written in Italian and published in English for the first time, as well as essays written in English, Translating Myself and Others brings together Lahiri's most lyrical and eloquently observed meditations on the translator's art as a sublime act of both linguistic and personal metamorphosis.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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1 Why Italian? --
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2 Containers: Introduction to Ties by Domenico Starnone --
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3 Juxtaposition: Introduction to Trick by Domenico Starnone --
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4 In Praise of Echo: Reflections on the Meaning of Translation --
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5 An Ode to the Mighty Optative: Notes of a Would-be Translator --
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6 Where I Find Myself: On Self-Translation --
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7 Substitution: Afterword to Trust by Domenico Starnone --
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8 Traduzione (stra)ordinaria/ (Extra)ordinary translation: On Gramsci --
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9 Lingua / Language --
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10 Calvino Abroad --
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(Afterword) Translating Transformation --
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes on the Essays --
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Appendix: Two Essays in Italian --
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Selected Bibliography --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
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EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
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Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110749731
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691231167
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
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Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Essays
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Essay
DOI:
10.1515/9780691238609
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691238609?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691238609
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