Full Description
Language in Literature examines the overlap and blurring boundaries of English, comparative and world poetry and literature. Questions of language, literature, translation and creative writing are addressed as befitting an author who is a poet, literary scholar and historian. The book begins with metaphor, which Aristotle thought, in Poetics, was the key gift of the poet, and discusses it in theory and practice; it moves from the identity of metaphor to identity in translation and culture; it examines poetry in a comparative and world context; it looks at image and text; it explores literature and culture in the Cold War; it explores the role of the poet and scholar in translating poetry East and West; it places creative writing in theory and practice in context East and West; it concludes by summing up and suggesting implications of creation in language, translating and interpreting, and its expression in literature, especially in poetry.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Metaphor
2. Image and Text in Context
3. Poetry, Language and Literature
4. Spenser and Milton in a European Context
5. Language, Literature, Culture and the Cold War
6. Hybrid Identity, Translation in Literature and Religion
7. Translating Poetry Between Cultures East and West
8. Creative Writing and Translation
9. Conclusion
Index
