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Mirror on mirror : translation, imitation, parody / Reuben Brower.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1974.Description: vii, 183 p. : illISBN:
  • 0674576454
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.009 BRO
Contents:
Introd.: Translation as parody.--Verbal and visual translation of myth: Neptune in Virgil, Rubens, Dryden.--The Theban eagle in English plumage.--Pope's Iliad for twentieth-century readers.--From the Iliad to the novel via The rape of the lock.--A poet's Odyssey.--Dryden's epic manner and Virgil.--The heresy of plot.--Poetic and dramatic design in versions and translations of Shakespeare.--Seven Agamemnons.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introd.: Translation as parody.--Verbal and visual translation of myth: Neptune in Virgil, Rubens, Dryden.--The Theban eagle in English plumage.--Pope's Iliad for twentieth-century readers.--From the Iliad to the novel via The rape of the lock.--A poet's Odyssey.--Dryden's epic manner and Virgil.--The heresy of plot.--Poetic and dramatic design in versions and translations of Shakespeare.--Seven Agamemnons.

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