The Bilingual Muse : Self-Translation among Russian Poets (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory)

Wanner, Adrian

Northwestern University Press（2020/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 248 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780810141247
• DDC分類 891.7109

Full Description

The Bilingual Muse analyzes the work of seven Russian poets who translated their own poems into English, French, German, or Italian. Investigating the parallel versions of self-translated poetic texts by Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodsky, Andrey Gritsman, Katia Kapovich, Marina Tsvetaeva, Wassily Kandinsky, and Elizaveta Kul'man, Adrian Wanner considers how verbal creativity functions in different languages, the conundrum of translation, and the vagaries of bilingual identities.

Wanner argues that the perceived marginality of self-translation stems from a romantic privileging of the mother tongue and the original text. The unprecedented recent dispersion of Russian speakers over three continents has led to the emergence of a new generation of diasporic Russians who provide a more receptive milieu for multilingual creativity. The book will be of interest to scholars in Russian literature, comparative literature, applied linguistics, translation studies, and the rapidly developing field of self-translation studies.

Contents

Introduction: "The Trick of Doubling Oneself" 
1. Elizaveta Kul'man: The Most Polyglot of Russian Poets
2. Wassily Kandinsky's Trilingual Poetry
3. Marina Tsvetaeva's Self-Translation into French
4. Vladimir Nabokov's Dilemma of Self-Translation
5. Joseph Brodsky in English
6. Self-Translation among Contemporary Russian-American Poets
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography