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- Book Synopsis
- Offering a comprehensive historical collection of texts on literary translation in the English tradition, this title demonstrates the connection between theory and practice; shows the work of women translators historically; and also highlights important poet-translators, such as Pope and Dryden, Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes.
- About The Author
- Daniel Weissbort was educated at St. Paul's School, London and Cambridge University. With Ted Hughes he founded the journal Modern Poetry in Translation, now published by King's College London. In the early 1970s he went to America to direct the Translation Workshop and MFA Program in Translation at the University of Iowa. His anthologies of Russian and East European poetry are well known and he has also published many collections of his own poetry. He is or has been on various boards, including the Poetry International Committee (UK), the American Literary Translators Association board, the Columbia Translation Center board, the Stephen Spender Memorial Trust, and the British Centre for Literary Translation board. He is Professor (Emeritus) of English and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, Research Fellow in the English Department, King's College London, and Honorary Professor in the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick. Astradur Eysteinsson was born in Akranes, Iceland, in 1957. He studied at the universities of Iceland, Warwick, and Cologne, before completing a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa. He has been Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland, and Visiting Professor in Translation Studies at the universities of Iowa and Copenhagen. He has been a practising translator since 1981.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780198712008
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, (03 August 2006)
- Number of Pages
- 649
- Weight
- 1226 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 245 x 190 x 37 mm
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