Cover of Tradition, translation, trauma

Book 2011

Tradition, translation, trauma

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Published
2011
  • Translating and interpreting
  • Psychic trauma in literature
  • Transmission of texts
  • History

This is a collection of essays by a team of international contributors concerned with how Classic - mainly Greek and Latin but also Arabic and Portuguese - texts become present in later cultures; how they are passed on, received and affect over time and space, and how they resonate in the modern.