Peter Low
Biographic Data
| ID | 1096200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Low |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Low |
| SIGNATURE | LOW P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Innovation and Spiritual Value in Medieval Monastic Art
This essay explores the peculiar character of innovation in monastic art around 1100 CE, and what specially monastic concerns may have motivated this underacknowledged thirst for invention. It focuses on the relationship between the main portal at the Cluniac abbey of Vézelay, created in the early twelfth century, and a number of Anglo-Saxon manuscript illuminations, produced in the monastic scriptorium at Winchester in the tenth century. A caref…
Translating jokes and puns
If a joke is not translated as a joke, the translation is bad. This article asserts that almost all verbally expressed humour is translatable, given appropriate strategies and reasonable criteria for success. It focuses on two problem areas, language-specific jokes (in particular puns) and culture-specific jokes, distinguishing these from more manageable kinds of humour. A brief survey of research on puns is given, followed by practical advice to…
The Nave Sculpture of Vézelay
Translating Songs that Rhyme
This article concerns 'singable translations' intended for performance in the target language. Translators have often assumed that a song-translation must rhyme as much as the original, and equally well. This false assumption underlies their poor strategic thinking, and prevents them from doing justice to four other aspects of the complex task: sense and naturalness (which are requirements of normal translating), plus rhythm and singability. No w…
Jules Supervielle
(2004). Jules Supervielle: an Eco-Poet? Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association: Vol. 2004, No. 101, pp. 25-37
Singable translations of songs
The making of singable translations of songs is a complex task, chiefly because the target text must be compatible with the pre‐existing music. This article discusses strategies for doing this, and recommends what the author calls ‘the pentathlon principle’ ‐ a deliberate balancing of five different criteria, identified as singability, sense, naturalness, rhyme, and rhythm. It urges translators to consider the specific characteristics of each son…
No Happy Phoenix? Concerning the French Sonnet in the Seventeenth Century
Credulity and Credibility
Jaccottet and the masters of Haiku
The Physiological Idiom in the Poetry of Supervielle
Such utterances of wonderment can, in their purest poetic manifestations' prompt the reader to admit that he didn't really comprehend these everyday truths after all. One piece of common knowledge of which Supervielle continually reminds his readers is this: people have bodies, with beating hearts inside. From his surprise at this fact arises an important vein of his poetry-poems in which he tries to feel, to seize, to dream the body, to imagine …
Translating jokes and puns
If a joke is not translated as a joke, the translation is bad. This article asserts that almost all verbally expressed humour is translatable, given appropriate strategies and reasonable criteria for success. It focuses on two problem areas, language-specific jokes (in particular puns) and culture-specific jokes, distinguishing these from more manageable kinds of humour. A brief survey of research on puns is given, followed by practical advice to…
Singable translations of songs
The making of singable translations of songs is a complex task, chiefly because the target text must be compatible with the pre‐existing music. This article discusses strategies for doing this, and recommends what the author calls ‘the pentathlon principle’ ‐ a deliberate balancing of five different criteria, identified as singability, sense, naturalness, rhyme, and rhythm. It urges translators to consider the specific characteristics of each son…
Translating Songs that Rhyme
This article concerns 'singable translations' intended for performance in the target language. Translators have often assumed that a song-translation must rhyme as much as the original, and equally well. This false assumption underlies their poor strategic thinking, and prevents them from doing justice to four other aspects of the complex task: sense and naturalness (which are requirements of normal translating), plus rhythm and singability. No w…
Credulity and Credibility
The Physiological Idiom in the Poetry of Supervielle
Such utterances of wonderment can, in their purest poetic manifestations' prompt the reader to admit that he didn't really comprehend these everyday truths after all. One piece of common knowledge of which Supervielle continually reminds his readers is this: people have bodies, with beating hearts inside. From his surprise at this fact arises an important vein of his poetry-poems in which he tries to feel, to seize, to dream the body, to imagine …
Jaccottet and the masters of Haiku
Credulity and Credibility
No Happy Phoenix? Concerning the French Sonnet in the Seventeenth Century
Singable translations of songs
The making of singable translations of songs is a complex task, chiefly because the target text must be compatible with the pre‐existing music. This article discusses strategies for doing this, and recommends what the author calls ‘the pentathlon principle’ ‐ a deliberate balancing of five different criteria, identified as singability, sense, naturalness, rhyme, and rhythm. It urges translators to consider the specific characteristics of each son…
Jules Supervielle
(2004). Jules Supervielle: an Eco-Poet? Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association: Vol. 2004, No. 101, pp. 25-37
The Nave Sculpture of Vézelay
Translating Songs that Rhyme
This article concerns 'singable translations' intended for performance in the target language. Translators have often assumed that a song-translation must rhyme as much as the original, and equally well. This false assumption underlies their poor strategic thinking, and prevents them from doing justice to four other aspects of the complex task: sense and naturalness (which are requirements of normal translating), plus rhythm and singability. No w…
Translating jokes and puns
If a joke is not translated as a joke, the translation is bad. This article asserts that almost all verbally expressed humour is translatable, given appropriate strategies and reasonable criteria for success. It focuses on two problem areas, language-specific jokes (in particular puns) and culture-specific jokes, distinguishing these from more manageable kinds of humour. A brief survey of research on puns is given, followed by practical advice to…
Innovation and Spiritual Value in Medieval Monastic Art
This essay explores the peculiar character of innovation in monastic art around 1100 CE, and what specially monastic concerns may have motivated this underacknowledged thirst for invention. It focuses on the relationship between the main portal at the Cluniac abbey of Vézelay, created in the early twelfth century, and a number of Anglo-Saxon manuscript illuminations, produced in the monastic scriptorium at Winchester in the tenth century. A caref…
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