Multiple im/person/aliz/ations: Four Attempts to 'get under the skin' of Poets
I have been actively translating for about twenty years. Looking back, I now realize that it made translation easier when I tried to ‘become’ the original writer: I was more successful when I asked myself, “what would they have written if they had had my knowledge of English?” and, for poetry, when...
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Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta
2011-02-01
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Series: | TranscUlturAl |
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Online Access: | https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/tc/index.php/TC/article/view/8900 |