Eloquent Barbarians: Poetry, Translation, and the American Avant-garde Público

Abstract

This dissertation contributes to recent debates about the interventionist potential of literary translation by tracing out a genealogy of modernist poetry translations extending from the beginning of the twentieth century into the present. I argue that the translation projects discussed in this study, from Ezra Pound's Propertius to Celia and Louis Zukofskys' Catullus and Jerome Rothenberg's Navajo and Seneca oral poetries, seek to renegotiate the function of translation and the tenuous distinction between translation and other forms of writing. The translators in this study adopt avant-garde experiments with collage, sound poetry, and concrete poetry to develop a variety of decidedly non-normative approaches to translation. As a result of these approaches, the translations become reflexive, allowing the reader to glimpse and interrogate the inner workings of the translation process.

Table of Contents

Introduction........................................................................................................................ 1

Chapter 1. In The Vortex: Ezra Pound's Propertius........................................................ 17

Chapter 2. Pedantry And Play: The Zukofsky Catullus................................................. 51

Chapter 3. Total Performance: Jerome Rothenberg's Ethnopoetic Translations............. 96

Conclusion...................................................................................................................... 132

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School	Laney Graduate School
Department	Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts
Degree	PhD
Submission	Dissertation
Language	English
Research Field	Literature, Comparative Literature, American Literature, Modern
Palavra-chave	translation avant-garde
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Bammer, Angelika, Emory University
Committee Members	Judovitz, Dalia, Emory University Reed, Walter L, Emory University

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