Examining Modern European Poet-Translators ‘Distantly’

Blakesley, Jacob

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“…Isaxanli (2014) discusses prevalent translation norms in specific periods in the Azerbaijani literary history and presents the attitudes of a number of poetry translators translating from Persian or Arabic towards their practice. An interesting project by Blakesley (2014Blakesley ( , 2016, and the sole quantitative study on poetry translators so far, aims at exploring national and international trends through the translations of Italian poet-translators using statistics. The special issue of Translation and Literature (2016), edited by Blakesley and Munday, is exclusively dedicated to poetry translation and includes articles which approach poetry translating from a number of perspectives, such as translation policy, editorial choices and publishing.…”

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Regarding Symbolic Capital: Poetry Translators from Modern Greek into English

Georgiou

2018

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The research object of this study is the symbolic capital of poetry translators and how it shapes and is being shaped by the current practices and self-descriptions of translators of Modern Greek poetry into English. A number of case studies indicate that people who translate poetry come from a variety of backgrounds, including those of a poet and an academic, which often do not include any formal translation training (Hofstadter 1997; Waldinger 2003; Bullock 2011; Isaxanli 2014). It also appears to be common that translators of poetry have a number of complementary roles, with that of ‘poetry translator’ not always central. The study draws on data consisting of Modern Greek into English poetry translators’ responses to a survey, of paratexts created by Modern Greek into English translators and of ten interviews. Cultural and educational capitals are examined in their institutionalized, objectified and embodied form as bearers of symbolic capital. Three overlapping categories are explored: the translators’ connection to poetry and the source culture, translator education and translator self-description. The translators’ “extratextual visibility” (Koskinen 2000 as cited in Chesterman 2018: 446) is also analyzed as it forms part of the translators’ embodied cultural and symbolic capital. This empirical exploration offers insights into the variety of attitudes and approaches to poetry translation; the emerging patterns map out profiles of a group of contemporary poetry translators, investigate the realities of the craft and re-position poetry translation practitioners with respect to other translation professionals.

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Regarding Symbolic Capital: Poetry Translators from Modern Greek into English

Georgiou

2018

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Tony Harrison the Translator: “Life’s a Performance. Either Join in / Lightheartedly, or Thole the Pain”

Blakesley

2018

English Studies

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including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. Jacob Blakesley Tony Harrison the translator: 'Life's a performance. Either join in / lightheartedly, or thole the pain' 1 Tony Harrison is the foremost poet-playwright of modern England. As critics have said, he is 'a titaὀ amὁὀg pὁets' 2 , who has 'chaὀged the eὀtire landscape of ἐritish pὁetry' 3 έ While ώarrisὁὀ's work has been studied extensively, 4 there exists no comprehensive overview of his translation practice and ideology. For too long, his translation activity has not been seen as a vital, integral part of his oeuvre. He is not simply a British poet, but a poet who has actively engaged with poets and writers from numerous literary and cultural traditions worldwide, with a geographic and chronological breadth that has not been adequately accounted for by scholars. This essay will argue for the importance of translation in his poetic career and will show how his primarily domesticating method of translation is influenced by his poetics and ideology. In order to keep the focus on his written translations, I will concentrate solely on his interlingual translations: Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, Martial, Palladas, and Racine, not his intersemiotic translations like Prometheus. 5 1 This work was supported by a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. I would like to thank the following people for advice with this essay: Rachel Bower, Odin Dekkers, Stella Sacchini, Chiara Sbordoni, and an anonymous reader at English Studies.

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Becoming a Czech literature translator in Poland: the role of trust

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2022

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Examining Modern European Poet-Translators ‘Distantly’

Cited by 5 publications

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Regarding Symbolic Capital: Poetry Translators from Modern Greek into English

Regarding Symbolic Capital: Poetry Translators from Modern Greek into English

Tony Harrison the Translator: “Life’s a Performance. Either Join in / Lightheartedly, or Thole the Pain”

Becoming a Czech literature translator in Poland: the role of trust

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