"From Wahnsinnig to the Loony Bin" is the first collection of published and unpublished transpositions - a genre created between translation and adaptation.
A transposition retains the form of an original story, but shifts its content when the past and present contexts are incompatible. Form is defined as each sentence or segment; content is moved from the past to the present - from the romantic era in Germany and Russia to 21st century America in this collection. You will find more information at www.transposing.net.
Our inaugural edition of transpositions furnishes stories...
"From Wahnsinnig to the Loony Bin" is the first collection of published and unpublished transpositions - a genre created between translation and adapt...
A baroque play about forsaken lovers and their attempts at revenge, until finally rejecting worldly ambition for piety. Cardenio has fallen in love with Olympia, but she chooses another man. Celinde has become smitten with Cardenio, but he only wants Olympia. Andreas Gryphius, the critically-acclaimed, German poet and dramatist, tells the tragedy of a hedonist and seductress who are willing to disgrace, bribe, murder, consult witches and exhume the dead to achieve their ends. In this first translation of the seventeenth-century classic, Henry Whittlesey has recreated the...
A baroque play about forsaken lovers and their attempts at revenge, until finally rejecting worldly ambition for piety. Cardenio has fallen in lo...
