Download or read book Translation of Poetry and Poetic Prose written by Sture Allén and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999-08-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation is a very important tool in our multilingual world. Excellent translation is a sine qua non in the work of the Swedish Academy, responsible for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In order to establish a forum for discussing fundamental aspects of the translation of poetry and poetic prose, a Nobel Symposium on this subject was organized. The list of contributors includes Sture Allén, Jean Boase-Beier, Philippe Bouquet, Anders Cullhed, Gunnel Engwall, Eugene Eoyang, Efim Etkind, Inga-Stina Ewbank, Knut Faldbakken, Seamus Heaney, Lyn Hejinian, Bengt Jangfeldt, Francis R Jones, Elke Liebs, Gunilla Lindberg-Wada, Göran Malmqvist, Shimon Markish, Margaret Mitsutani, Judith Moffett, Mariya Novykova, Tim Parks, Ulla Roseen, Emmanuela Tandello, Eliot Weinberger, Daniel Weissbort, and Fran(oise Wuilmart. Contents: Fundamental Theoretical IssuesNormalization — A Constant ThreatTranslation of Metrical and/or Rhymed PoetryThe “Double Tongue”Translating from Non-Indo-European LanguagesThe Role of the AuthorSeveral Translations of the Same Text Readership: Translators, literary historians and critics. Keywords: