Emily Wilson Talks Complicated Men, Celebrating Strangeness, and Why There is Always Another Way to Say It

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translation43x no texto
“Like every translation choice, “complicated” is a compromise.”
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Frase de exemploLike every translation choice, “complicated” is a compromise.
ancient22x no texto
“Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea aims to underline the strangeness of numerous ancient genres and cultural assumptions, beyond Homeric epic.”
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Frase de exemploCrossing the Wine-Dark Sea aims to underline the strangeness of numerous ancient genres and cultural assumptions, beyond Homeric epic.
translations18x no texto
“The original may endure, but translations age along with the language and assumptions of the culture that produced them.”
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Frase de exemploThe original may endure, but translations age along with the language and assumptions of the culture that produced them.
modern15x no texto
“And throughout the book, you return to the importance of preserving the strangeness of ancient literature rather than smoothing it away for modern readers.”
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Frase de exemploAnd throughout the book, you return to the importance of preserving the strangeness of ancient literature rather than smoothing it away for modern readers.
translators14x no texto
“It isn’t identical in denotation, connotation, register or sound to the original—and nor are any of the other ways translators have dealt with polytropos .”
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Frase de exemploIt isn’t identical in denotation, connotation, register or sound to the original—and nor are any of the other ways translators have dealt with polytropos .
men13x no texto
“I had taught several different English translations over the years, and had never even noticed that they were all by men.”
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Frase de exemploI had taught several different English translations over the years, and had never even noticed that they were all by men.
strangeness12x no texto
“Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea aims to underline the strangeness of numerous ancient genres and cultural assumptions, beyond Homeric epic.”
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Frase de exemploCrossing the Wine-Dark Sea aims to underline the strangeness of numerous ancient genres and cultural assumptions, beyond Homeric epic.
crossing11x no texto
“A core theme in Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea is that canons shift, and all such worlds are transient things.”
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Frase de exemploA core theme in Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea is that canons shift, and all such worlds are transient things.
wine-dark11x no texto
“A core theme in Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea is that canons shift, and all such worlds are transient things.”
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Frase de exemploA core theme in Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea is that canons shift, and all such worlds are transient things.
literary10x no texto
“I think any literary translator needs to think hard about how to work with and push back against readers’ likely horizons of expectations.”
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Frase de exemploI think any literary translator needs to think hard about how to work with and push back against readers’ likely horizons of expectations.
literature10x no texto
“And throughout the book, you return to the importance of preserving the strangeness of ancient literature rather than smoothing it away for modern readers.”
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Frase de exemploAnd throughout the book, you return to the importance of preserving the strangeness of ancient literature rather than smoothing it away for modern readers.
poetic10x no texto
“My goals were about poetic form, pacing, and narrative perspective.”
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Frase de exemploMy goals were about poetic form, pacing, and narrative perspective.
traditional9x no texto
“With my translation of the Iliad , I gave up on the line-for-line constraint, while continuing to use traditional meter (iambic pentameter).”
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Frase de exemploWith my translation of the Iliad , I gave up on the line-for-line constraint, while continuing to use traditional meter (iambic pentameter).
translator9x no texto
“My commitment to poetic form is one of my most important priorities as a translator of metrical poetry.”
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Frase de exemploMy commitment to poetic form is one of my most important priorities as a translator of metrical poetry.
languages9x no texto
“Students mostly stuck to word-for-word renderings, but even in that limited way, wasn’t the exposure to how people think in other languages somehow world-opening?”
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Frase de exemploStudents mostly stuck to word-for-word renderings, but even in that limited way, wasn’t the exposure to how people think in other languages somehow world-opening?
complicated8x no texto
“Like every translation choice, “complicated” is a compromise.”
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Frase de exemploLike every translation choice, “complicated” is a compromise.
major8x no texto
“A major theme in Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea is that particular interpretations of ancient literature or culture can be very sticky, regardless of their truth value.”
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Frase de exemploA major theme in Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea is that particular interpretations of ancient literature or culture can be very sticky, regardless of their truth value.
instance8x no texto
“For instance, in my essay on the myths surrounding Helen of Troy (also known as Helen of Sparta), I show that modern versions of this figure are sometimes more straightforwardly misogynistic than the ancient depictions.”
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Frase de exemploFor instance, in my essay on the myths surrounding Helen of Troy (also known as Helen of Sparta), I show that modern versions of this figure are sometimes more straightforwardly misogynistic than the ancient depictions.
fiction7x no texto
“In the case of ancient Greek and Roman literature, popular and even scholarly expectations about how these texts “should” sound in English are quite different from the expectations many readers may have about how contemporary fiction “should” sound.”
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Frase de exemploIn the case of ancient Greek and Roman literature, popular and even scholarly expectations about how these texts “should” sound in English are quite different from the expectations many readers may have about how contemporary fiction “should” sound.
poetry7x no texto
“These are the importance of poetic form in verse translation—whether of drama, lyric poetry or epic—and the need for literary translators to consider the stylistic and emotional effects of both the original and the translation.”
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Frase de exemploThese are the importance of poetic form in verse translation—whether of drama, lyric poetry or epic—and the need for literary translators to consider the stylistic and emotional effects of both the original and the translation.
meter7x no texto
“With my translation of the Iliad , I gave up on the line-for-line constraint, while continuing to use traditional meter (iambic pentameter).”
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Frase de exemploWith my translation of the Iliad , I gave up on the line-for-line constraint, while continuing to use traditional meter (iambic pentameter).
such7x no texto
“It’s so fun, and such a privilege to get to play with this kind of task every day.”
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Frase de exemploIt’s so fun, and such a privilege to get to play with this kind of task every day.
rather7x no texto
“It’s more natural in English to convey many of these points of emphasis by word order rather than particles.”
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Frase de exemploIt’s more natural in English to convey many of these points of emphasis by word order rather than particles.
things7x no texto
“Epithets are sticky things.”
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Frase de exemploEpithets are sticky things.