Auden, Translation, Betrayal
Radical Poetics and Translation from Old English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12880461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel C Remein (New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 811-829 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2011.00855.x |
| OpenAlex | W2140160793 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
This essay addresses the state of the translation of poetry from Anglo‐Saxon and Old English in Anglo‐Saxon and Old English studies. As an alternative to a conservative tendency in the state of translation from Old English the essay points to the usefulness of thinking about Old English poetry and its translation from the position of the more radical moments of 20th and 21st century poetics. Translation from Old English poetry tends to result in or follow the direction of dominant and conservative poetics. The essay first examines this conservative tendency as it can be made legible by relatively recent theoretical languages from translation theory with reference to deconstruction. The essay then turns to a philologically minded reading of W. H. Auden’s poem sometimes titled ‘The Secret Agent’ in its relation to the Old English poem called Wulf and Eadwacer as an example of a way to conceive of translating the medieval more broadly and radically. In the case of Auden’s poem, to employ or even to think a more radical poetics of translating Old English would demand a willingness to queerly compromise the bounds of the proper, to learn from and follow not only dominant and conservative poetics but also modern and contemporary avant‐garde and experimental poetics. The essay outlines the possibility of translating the medieval as a betrayal of globally hegemonic modern English, allowing the medieval to infiltrate the present
Art · Betrayal · Deconstruction (building · Literature · Old English · Poetics · Poetry · Translation studies · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Psychology · Translation Studies and Practices
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The Scandals of Translation
Provincializing Europe
Periodization and Sovereignty
Homo Sacer
Dogode in Wulf and Eadwacer and King Alfred's Hunting Metaphors
New Old English
Seductive Voices
Anglo‐Saxonism in Nineteenth‐Century Poetry
Docents of Discourse
Landscape of Desire
The Voice of Exile
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |