Creative Translation
From Mimicry to Limicry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9612746 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosemary Lloyd (The University of Adelaide, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-19 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of French Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9468 • E-ISSN: 2046-2913 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/ajfs.2020.02 |
| OpenAlex | W3014388837 |
| Language | EN |
Creative translation can take numerous forms and provides an often-illuminating focus on the source text. Mimicking an author’s voice by transposing sonnets into limericks has allowed the Australian poet Jan Owen, for instance, to delve at once more deeply and more playfully into Baudelaire’s imaginary. In this article I explore how such transpositions operate and why the associated art of mimicry, one of Brian Nelson’s many gifts, is so crucial to successful translation
Art · Biology · Linguistics · Literature · Mimicry · Translation (biology · Zoology · Genetics · History · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices
| Highly cited | No |
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