Cover 1
Title Page, Copyright 2
Contents 6
Acknowledgments 8
Abbreviations 10
Thinking in Translation 12
1. Contexts: Why Translate? Why Study the Greeks? 36
2. Distancing: Oedipal Solitude 58
3. Difference Becomes Antigone 97
4. The Translator￢ﾀﾙs Courage 133
5. Out of Tune? Heidegger on Translation 157
Ruined Theater: Adaptation and Responsibility in Brecht￢ﾀﾙs Antigonemodell 203
Conclusion: Re-writing 239
Bibliography 264
Index 276
Publisher:The Ohio State University Press,Published:2012,ISBN:9780814270486,Related ISBN:9780814211830,Language:English,OCLC:868220110
Tragic Effects: Ethics and Tragedy in the Age of Translation confronts the peculiar fascination with Greek tragedy as it shapes the German intellectual tradition, with particular focus on the often controversial practice of translating the Greeks. Whereas the tradition of emulating classical ideals in German intellectual life has generally emerged from the impulse to identify with models, the challenge of translating the Greeks underscores the linguistic and historical discontinuities inherent in the recourse to ancient material and inscribes that experience of disruption as fundamental to modernity. Friedrich Hölderlin’s translations are a case in point. Regarded in his own time as the work of a madman, his renditions of Sophoclean tragedy intensify dramatic effect with the unsettling experience of familiar language slipping its moorings. His attention to marking the distances between ancient source text and modern translation has granted his Oedipus and Antigone a distinct longevity as objects of discussion, adaptation, and even retranslation. Cited by Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Bertolt Brecht, and others, Hölderlin’s Sophocles project follows a path both marked by various contexts and tinged by persistent quandaries of untranslatability.

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Therese Augst

United States, United States of America

First Edition, 1st, 2012

producers:
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover 1
Title Page, Copyright 2
Contents 6
Acknowledgments 8
Abbreviations 10
Thinking in Translation 12
1. Contexts: Why Translate? Why Study the Greeks? 36
2. Distancing: Oedipal Solitude 58
3. Difference Becomes Antigone 97
4. The Translator¬タルs Courage 133
5. Out of Tune? Heidegger on Translation 157
Ruined Theater: Adaptation and Responsibility in Brecht¬タルs Antigonemodell 203
Conclusion: Re-writing 239
Bibliography 264
Index 276
Publisher:The Ohio State University Press,Published:2012,ISBN:9780814270486,Related ISBN:9780814211830,Language:English,OCLC:868220110
Tragic Effects: Ethics and Tragedy in the Age of Translation confronts the peculiar fascination with Greek tragedy as it shapes the German intellectual tradition, with particular focus on the often controversial practice of translating the Greeks. Whereas the tradition of emulating classical ideals in German intellectual life has generally emerged from the impulse to identify with models, the challenge of translating the Greeks underscores the linguistic and historical discontinuities inherent in the recourse to ancient material and inscribes that experience of disruption as fundamental to modernity. Friedrich Hölderlin’s translations are a case in point. Regarded in his own time as the work of a madman, his renditions of Sophoclean tragedy intensify dramatic effect with the unsettling experience of familiar language slipping its moorings. His attention to marking the distances between ancient source text and modern translation has granted his Oedipus and Antigone a distinct longevity as objects of discussion, adaptation, and even retranslation. Cited by Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Bertolt Brecht, and others, Hölderlin’s Sophocles project follows a path both marked by various contexts and tinged by persistent quandaries of untranslatability.

2022-03-08