wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Ghost Passage
ISBN: 9781848617940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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78,62 zł |
Classical Women Poets
ISBN: 9781852243425 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Josephine Balmer's translations breathe new life into long-lost works by over a dozen poets from early Greece to the late Roman empire, including Sappho, Corinna, Erinna and Sulpicia, as well as inscriptions, folk-songs and even graffiti. Each poet is introduced by a brief bibliographical note, and where necessary her poems are annotated to guide readers through unfamiliar mythological of historical reference. In an illuminating introduction, Josephine Balmer examines the nature of women's poetry in antiquity, as well as the problems (and pleasures) of translating such fragmentary works....
Josephine Balmer's translations breathe new life into long-lost works by over a dozen poets from early Greece to the late Roman empire, including Sapp...
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41,14 zł |
Piecing Together the Fragments: Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry
ISBN: 9780199585090 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Piecing Together the Fragments, translator and poet Josephine Balmer examines the art of classical translation from the perspective of the practitioner. Positioning her study within the long tradition of translator prefaces and introductions, Balmer argues that such statements should be considered as much a part of creative writing as literary theory. From translating Sappho and other classical women poets, as well as Catullus and Ovid, to her poetry collections inspired by classical literature, Balmer discusses her relationship with her source texts and uncovers the various strategies and...
In Piecing Together the Fragments, translator and poet Josephine Balmer examines the art of classical translation from the perspective of the practiti...
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627,64 zł |
The Paths of Survival
ISBN: 9781848615298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The Paths of Survival explores the fragility of the written word; the ways in which it is destroyed and the ways in which, by each fresh miracle, it endures against all the odds. Tracing the few surviving fragments of Aeschylus's lost tragedy, Myrmidons, which notoriously depicted the doomed love of the Greek hero Achilles for his fellow warrior Patroclus, the volume moves backwards in time across two and a half millennia; from a tiny scrap of papyrus in a present-day Oxford library to the dying Aeschylus revising his masterpiece in fifth-century BCE Sicily. Along the... The Paths of Survival explores the fragility of the written word; the ways in which it is destroyed and the ways in which, by each fresh m... |
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78,62 zł |
The Word for Sorrow
ISBN: 9781844719655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) From Ovid's Rome to the blood-soaked trenches of Gallipoli, "The Word for Sorrow," brings new resonance to ancient grief. Its powerful and spellbinding poems give voice to the universal suffering of exile, war or grief, celebrating the enduring common humanity that binds us across countries and over all the centuries.
From Ovid's Rome to the blood-soaked trenches of Gallipoli, "The Word for Sorrow," brings new resonance to ancient grief. Its powerful and spellbindin...
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69,67 zł |
Poems of Love and Hate
ISBN: 9781852246457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Sensual, salacious and above all scandalous, the erotic verse of the Roman poet Catullus has delighted - and shocked - readers for centuries. This new translation of the complete shorter poems highlights both the intense lyricism and the scabrous wit of the original.
Sensual, salacious and above all scandalous, the erotic verse of the Roman poet Catullus has delighted - and shocked - readers for centuries. This new...
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46,32 zł |