Underlying Rhythm: On Translation, Communication, and Literary Languages. Essays in Honor of Burton Pike

ISBN-13: 9781800799806 / Angielski

Peter Constantine; Robert Cowan; Henry Gifford

Opis

This volume explores the importance of scholarly and literary communities, the challenges of translation and difference, and the search for the ineffable in art. It is a collection of interviews, translations, essays and tributes in honor of the translator and scholar Burton Pike.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction - An Interview with Burton Pike - Growing Up in Language and Music: An Interview with Burton Pike - With All the Senses: A Translation of Klaus Mann's "Gimietto" with Commentary - Short Prose from Contemplation by Franz Kafka, with Commentary - Translation of a Passage from Madame Bovary, with Commentary - An Ode to Rome, and a Translation of Lucio Mariani's "Roman Ode" - Letters on The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil - Armand de Kroullosta: Thomas Mann's Confessions of the Confidence Man-A Lecture - The City as TK - Accessing Ludwig Hohl - Arnheim and His Discontents in Musil's The Man without Qualities - The Birth of Modern Czech Out of the Spirit of the Austrian Enlightenment - Diderot and Musil: Negative Capability as Ironic Acting - Pre- Existing Conditions: The Diseased Urban Self in Andrei Bitov's The Pushkin House - The Utopia of Metaphor as Translation - The Art of Betrayal: Translation in an Age of Suspicion - Acceptance Speech for the Friedrich Ulfers Prize, 2016 - Laudation for Burton Pike as He Is Awarded the 2016 Friedrich Ulfers Prize [Adapted and Updated in 2022] - Stalking the Ineffable - A Tribute to Burt Pike - Celebrating Burton Pike - Burton Pike in Vienna, circa 1994 - Reminiscence - A Mental Desk with Many Drawers - Tribute.

O autorze

Peter Constantine is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Connecticut.

Robert Cowan is Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY.

Henry N. Gifford is a freelance copy editor and writer.

Genese Grill is a Musil scholar, translator, essayist, and former student of Burton Pike.

James Keller is Adjunct Assistant Professor of German at Pasadena City College in California, a translator, and former student of Burton Pike.