Seferis and Elytis as Translators
Seferis and Elytis as Translators George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis gave the Modern Greek language a substantial corpus of translations from poets working in French, Italian, Spanish, Russian,…
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Seferis and Elytis as Translators
George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis gave the Modern Greek language a substantial corpus of translations from poets working in French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, English and Ancient Greek. The present volume provides a close examination of Seferis' and Elytis' inter- and intra-lingual verse translations with the aim of discovering their translating techniques and their personal and public goals in pursuing the act of translation. However, the translation practices of these two Nobel Prize-winning poets have long been inadequately observed.
The methodological approach, informed by recent findings in the field of descriptive translation studies and polysystem theories, investigates the function of translation in the target culture and the relation of translation to original poetic production. Similarities and differences between the two poets are highlighted comparatively. Throughout the
George Seferis Beaton Roderick
Axion Esti Elytis Odysseus