Reading Rilke Reflections On The Problems Of Translations

Author : William H. Gass
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0804150923
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Rilke written by William H. Gass and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-08-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatly admired essayist, novelist, and philosopher, author of Cartesian Sonata, Finding a Form, and The Tunnel, reflects on the art of translation and on Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies -- and gives us his own translation of Rilke's masterwork. After nearly a lifetime of reading Rilke in English, William Gass undertook the task of translating Rilke's writing in order to see if he could, in that way, get closer to the work he so deeply admired. With Gass's own background in philosophy, it seemed natural to begin with the Duino Elegies, the poems in which Rilke's ideas are most fully expressed and which as a group are important not only as one of the supreme poetic achievements of the West but also because of the way in which they came to be written -- in a storm of inspiration. Gass examines the genesis of the ideas that inform the Elegies and discusses previous translations. He writes, as well, about Rilke the man: his character, his relationships, his life. Finally, his extraordinary translation of the Duino Elegies offers us the experience of reading Rilke with a new and fuller understanding.

Author : John J. L. Mood
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393350177
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations written by John J. L. Mood and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994-02-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of Rilke's strongest poetry and prose for both aficionados and new readers. Here is a mini-anthology of poetry and prose for both aficionados and those readers discovering Rainer Maria Rilke for the first time. John J. L. Mood has assembled a collection of Rilke's strongest work, presenting commentary along with the selections. Mood links into an essay passages from letters that show Rilke's profound understanding of men and women and his ardent spirituality, rooted in the senses. Combining passion and sensitivity, the poems on love presented here are often not only sensual but sexual as well. Others pursue perennial themes in his work—death and life, growth and transformation. The book concludes with Rilke's reflections on wisdom and openness to experience, on grasping what is most difficult and turning what is most alien into that which we can most trust.

Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874514612
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of Rilke written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1989 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished poet-translator presents faithful verse translations of 72 poems in a bilingual edition with commentary and biographical material.

Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618565894
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered the definitive English translation of Rilke's brilliant andhaunting masterworks, A. Poulin's edition of Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus provides an essential introduction to some of the most passionate and intensely creative visionary poetry of the twentieth century. With a new foreword by the esteemed poet Mark Doty and a fresh new design, Poulin's revered translation is certain to acquaint a new generation of readers with the works of Rilke.

Author : Andrew Chesterman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027283095
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memes of Translation written by Andrew Chesterman and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-06-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memes of Translation is a search for coherence in translation theory based on the notion of Memes: ideas that spread, develop and replicate, like genes. The author explores a wide range of ideas on translation, mapping the “meme pool” of translation theory with chapters on translation history, norms, strategies, assessment, ethics, and translator training. The aim of the book is to search for a perspective from which the immense variety of ideas about translation can be related. The unifying thread is the philosophy of Karl Popper. The book proposes the beginnings of a Popperian theory of translation, based on the fundamental concepts of norms, strategies, and values. A key idea is that a translation itself is a theory or hypothesis concerning the source text. This hypothesis is then subjected to testing, refinement, and perhaps even rejection, just like any other hypothesis.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004427414
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Retranslating Joyce for the 21st Century written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retranslating Joyce for the 21st Century offers multi-angled critical attention to recent retranslations of Joyce’s works into Italian, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Turkish, German, South Slavic and many other languages, and reflects the newest scholarly developments in Joyce and translation studies.

Author : Michael Hofmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192587293
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Messing About in Boats written by Michael Hofmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the eminent poet Michael Hofmann, this approachable and companionable book offers readings of four poems on the subject of boats. Based on Michael Hofmann's Clarendon lectures, this volume offers readings of four poems in German, French, Italian, and English, by Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Eugenio Montale, and Karen Solie. All four poems are on the subject of boats: 'Emigrant Ship', the 'Bateau Ivre', 'Boats on the Marne', and 'The World'. The volume suggests an affinity between boats and poems, offers a partial lineage of boats in poems, and pursues four variant destinies: the boat that stays in port, the boat that gives itself to the world, the boat that is washed away down the river, and the one that goes manically and hubristically on forever. The volume retains the style of lectures and has an improvisational character, with the same fire and detail as the things it is about. It is written with a sense of fun, of revelation, and in a spirit of respect and attention.

Author : William H. Gass
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307701638
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle C written by William H. Gass and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Skizzen's family fled from Austria in 1938 to London where his father disappeared, he and his family then relocated to small town Ohio and Joseph grows up to be a decent piano player with a deeply fractured sense of identity.

Author : Anita Barrows
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006198695X
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Year with Rilke written by Anita Barrows and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most beloved poets of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke is widely celebrated for his depth of insight and timeless relevance. He has influenced generations of writers with his classic Letters to a Young Poet, and his reflections on the divine and our place in the world are disarmingly profound. A Year with Rilke provides the first ever reading from Rilke for every day of the year, including selections from his luminous poetry, his piercing prose, and his intimate letters and journals. Rilke is a trusted guide amid the bustle of our daily experience, reflecting on such themes as impermanence, the beauty of creation, the voice of God, and the importance of solitude. With new translations from the editors, whose acclaimed translation of Rilke's The Book of Hours won an ardent readership, this collection reveals the depth and breadth of Rilke's acclaimed work.

Author : William H. Gass
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0804150915
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cartesian Sonata written by William H. Gass and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-08-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of The Tunnel and Finding a Form--four interrelated novellas that explore Mind, Matter, and God. In the first novella, Gass redefines Descartes' philosophy. God is a writer in a constant state of fumble. Mind is represented by a housewife who is a modern-day Cassandra. And Matter is, what (and who) else but the helpless and confused husband of Mind. In the novella that follows, the concept of salvation is explored through material possessions--a collection of kitsch--as a traveling businessman is slowly lost in the sheer surfeit of matter in a small Illinois town. In another, Gass explores the mind's ability to escape. A young woman growing up in ruralIowa finds herself losing touch with the physical world as she loses herself in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. And in "The Master of Secret Revenges," God appears in the form of Descartes' evil demon, Lucifer, as Gass chronicles the life of a young man named Luther and his development from his devilish youth to his demonic adulthood. A profound exploration of good and evil, philosophy and action, filled with the wit and style that have defined the work of William Gass.