Tradition, Translation, Trauma
The Classic and the Modern
Edited by Jan Parker and Timothy Mathews
Table of Contents
Prologue, Susan Bassnett
Introduction: Images of Tradition, Translation, Trauma . . ., Jan Parker
I. Handing on, Making Anew, Refusing the Classic
Proemion: Translating a Paean of Praise, Frederick Ahl
1. Fuzzy Connections: Classical Texts and Modern Poetry in English, Lorna Hardwick
2. Pope's Trojan Geography, David Hopkins
3. Sophoclean Journeys, Pat Easterling
4. Cicero: Gentleman and Orator: Metaphors in Eighteenth Century Reception, Matthew Fox
5. Eating Eumolpus: Fellini Satyricon and Dreaming Tradition, Richard Armstrong
6. After Freud. Sophocles's Oedipus in the Twenty-First Century, Rachel Bowlby
II. Modernity and its Price: Nostalgia and the Classic
7. The Price of the Modern: Walter Benjamin and Counterfactuals, Christopher Prendergast
8. Composite Cultures, Chaos Wor(l)ds: Relational Poetics, Textual Hybridity, and the Future of Opacity, Jonathan Monroe
9. Time, Free Verse and the Gods of Modernism, Ian Patterson
10. Lost in Nostalgia: Modernity's Repressed Other, Wen-Chin Ouyang
III. The Time of Memory, the Time of Trauma
11. No Consolation: The Lamenting Voice and Public Memory, Gail Holst-Warhaft
12. The Abject Eidos: Trauma and the Body in Sophocles' Electra, Jane Montgomery Griffiths
13. What's Hecuba to him . . . that he should weep for her?, Jan Parker
14. Modernism's Nostalgics, Nostalgia's Modernity, George Rousseau
15. Mediating Trauma: How Do We Read the Holocaust Memoirs?, Piotr Kuhiwczak
16. History as Traumatic Memory: Das Africas, Helena Buescu
17. Reading the Invisible with Cess Nooteboom, Walter Benjamin and Alberto Giacometti, Timothy Mathews
Conclusion: Can Anyone Look in Both Directions at Once?, Timothy Mathews
Epilogue, Derek Attridge