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- Tragic Effects: Ethics and Tragedy in the Age of Translation
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- 2012
- Published by: The Ohio State University Press
- Series: Classical Memories/Modern Identities
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Tragic Effects: Ethics and Tragedy in the Age of Translation confronts the peculiar fascination with Greek tragedy as it shapes the German intellectual tradition, with particular focus on the often controversial practice of translating the Greeks. Whereas the tradition of emulating classical ideals in German intellectual life has generally emerged from the impulse to identify with models, the challenge of translating the Greeks underscores the linguistic and historical discontinuities inherent in the recourse to ancient material and inscribes that experience of disruption as fundamental to modernity. Friedrich Hölderlin’s translations are a case in point. Regarded in his own time as the work of a madman, his renditions of Sophoclean tragedy intensify dramatic effect with the unsettling experience of familiar language slipping its moorings. His attention to marking the distances between ancient source text and modern translation has granted his Oedipus and Antigone a distinct longevity as objects of discussion, adaptation, and even retranslation. Cited by Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Bertolt Brecht, and others, Hölderlin’s Sophocles project follows a path both marked by various contexts and tinged by persistent quandaries of untranslatability.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Abbreviations
- pp. ix-x
- Thinking in Translation
- pp. 1-24
- 2. Distancing: Oedipal Solitude
- pp. 47-85
- 3. Difference Becomes Antigone
- pp. 86-121
- 4. The Translator’s Courage
- pp. 122-145
- 5. Out of Tune? Heidegger on Translation
- pp. 146-191
- Conclusion: Re-writing
- pp. 228-252
- Bibliography
- pp. 253-264
Additional Information
ISBN
9780814270486
Related ISBN(s)
9780814211830
MARC Record
OCLC
868220110
Pages
312
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
Yes