Translation as Transformation: Translating "Poet in New York" by Lorca
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Oct 29, 2008 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm (Wednesday)
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Location: Barrick Museum Auditorium Prof. Mark Statman, Eugene Lang College, The New School, and Prof. Pablo Medina, UNLV English Department, with Prof. Douglas Unger, Chair of Engl...
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Location: Barrick Museum Auditorium
Prof. Mark Statman, Eugene Lang College, The New School, and Prof. Pablo Medina, UNLV English Department, with Prof. Douglas Unger, Chair of English, UNLV
During 1929-30 the Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca composed a surreal masterpiece of lyricism, his Poet in New York. In the unsettling wake of 9/11 Pablo Medina and Mark Statman thought the poem deserved a new translation, and last year they published a version that John Ashbery has called definitive. This evening they engage with English department chair Douglas Unger in a discussion about what it means to translate a classic. The question the panel poses was asked by Borges in regard to Don Quixote: Can the literary work transcend history to become more relevant in today's world than when first written? And how does translation effect and enhance this transformation? Co-sponsored by the UNLV Department of English.
Pam Weiss 895-3401
pam.weiss@unlv.edu
Prof. Mark Statman, Eugene Lang College, The New School, and Prof. Pablo Medina, UNLV English Department, with Prof. Douglas Unger, Chair of English, UNLV
During 1929-30 the Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca composed a surreal masterpiece of lyricism, his Poet in New York. In the unsettling wake of 9/11 Pablo Medina and Mark Statman thought the poem deserved a new translation, and last year they published a version that John Ashbery has called definitive. This evening they engage with English department chair Douglas Unger in a discussion about what it means to translate a classic. The question the panel poses was asked by Borges in regard to Don Quixote: Can the literary work transcend history to become more relevant in today's world than when first written? And how does translation effect and enhance this transformation? Co-sponsored by the UNLV Department of English.
Pam Weiss 895-3401
pam.weiss@unlv.edu
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