Divine Comedies for the New Millennium

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Edited by Ronald de Rooy

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: January 2021
Print publication year:: 2003
Online ISBN:: 9789048505241
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048505241

Subjects:: Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest

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The difficulty of translating Dante has, paradoxically, created a steady of flux of translations. Around the year 2000, seven cantiche were translated by Dutchmen and seven by Americans, giving rise to a seminar on the state and tradition of translating Dante in both countries. In the course of discussing these landmark translations, contributors to this volume inevitably make statements about how Dante's masterpiece should be read: as a poem, to be translated fearlessly and confrontationally; as a scholarly text, to be treated cautiously and rigorously; or as some combination of the two?

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

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pp 5-6

IntroductionDivine Comedies for the New Millennium. Humbleness and Hubris
pp 7-22

The Translations of Dante’s Comedy in America
pp 23-42

Translating Dante into English Again and Again
pp 43-48

‘Getting Just a Small Part of it Right’
pp 49-54

The Poet Translated by American Poets. In Search of the Perfect ‘Trasmutazione Musaica’
pp 55-74

Ciò Che Potea La Lingua Nostra. One Hundred and More Years of Dante Translations into Dutch
pp 75-100

Translating Dante’s Translations
pp 101-114

Notes
pp 115-132

About the Contributors
pp 133-134

Selected Bibliography of American and Dutch Dante Translations
pp 135-140

Index of Names
pp 141-144

Miscellaneous Endmatter
pp 145-152

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