Adam Czerniawski

Firing the Canon

Essays Mainly on Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays predominantly concerned with modern poetry, with problems of translating poetry, and with the relationship between poetry and philosophy. There is also some material dealing with music, the visual arts and religious belief.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Salt Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9781844714834
• ISBN-10: 1844714837
• Artikelnr.: 28895578

Autorenporträt

Adam Czerniawski was born in Warsaw in 1934. Now lives in Wales. His publications in Polish include poetry, essays and short stories. His English publications include translations of poetry by Jan Kochanowski, Cyprian Norwid, Wis¿awa Szymborska and Tadeusz Ró¿ewicz, his own memoir Scenes from a disturbed childhood and essays on poetry and philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Author's Note
Biographical Note
I
Celebration
Polish Poetry in the West, or the Canon That Fired Late
Hamlet or Fortinbras?
Poetry in the next Millennium
II
Before and after Babel
Translation of Poetry - Theory and Practice
The Perils of Self-Translation
III
Choosing a Favourite Poem or De Amicitia
The Poet-Administrator's Farewell
In Memoriam Z.H.
St Anselm and I: Ontology, Coincidence and the Fortunate Isles
Cyprian and Emily
A Monologue about a 'Dialogue'
A Dutch Master for Our Times?
IV
Holy Heraclitus
The Particular Imagination
Theme and Variations:
(i) Poetry and Prose
(ii) Poetry and Nonsense
(iii) Words for Music Perhaps
(iv) Art Thou Translated?
(v) Poetry and Everything
Absurdity and Poetry
Where Is the Music?
Literary Truths
Notes
Index of Names