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Word in Time: Poetry, Narrative, Translation
Essays for Arthur Terry on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday
Edited by Leon Burnett

The essays in this volume, written for Arthur Terry and presented to him on the occasion of his 70th birthday, reflect his wide-ranging interest in, and scholarly contribution to, comparative literature during a long and distinguished academic career.

Written by leading specialists, these essays explore various effects of the "word in time", that is to say, they demonstrate by means of individual case-studies how significant shifts in focus and orientation, occurring at crucial historical moments from the fifteenth century to the present day, may be revealed through a close examination of key literary works of the period. In the process, new readings are offered of individual poems and prose works originally written in six different languages: English, Spanish, Catalan, French, German and Russian. English translations are not only provided for all the foreign texts discussed, but in several instances they are also used to interpret them.

Topics as diverse as Europe's discovery of the New World, the investiture of Romanticism, the constructions of Modernism and its aftermath - post-modernism - are covered. The new disciplines of translation studies, gender studies and film studies, which have come to challenge more traditional approaches within the field of comparative literature, are well represented in these essays.

Professor Terry's own erudite, valedictory lecture on "The Strangeness of Spanish Golden Age Poetry" is also included in the volume.

Contents:

Introduction (Leon Burnett);
Arthur Terry: An Appreciation (Peter France);
Translating Columbus (Peter Hulme);
Brave New Words: Translation and Romanticism (Leon Burnett);
Servants of the Word: Problems of Intercultural Translation (Susan Bassnett);
The Unforgiveable: Narrative and Identification in Readings of Christa Wolf (Elaine Jordan);
Sentence Structure and Narrative Time in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (Malcolm Bowie);
Almodóvar's 'Matador': Power, Pleasure, and the Frenzy of the Visible (Paul Julian Smith);
The Strangeness of Spanish Golden Age Poetry (Arthur Terry);
An Arithmetic of Resistance: Tsvetaeva's Mother and Music (Angela Livingstone);
The Depths of Seclusion: Romantic Poetry of Exile (John E. Coombes);
The Unreliable Narrator Revisited: The Case of Galdós's Lo prohibido (Geoffrey Ribbans);
Pere Calders under the Magnifying Glass (Alan Yates);
Trans(but too)late? North-South, East-West and the Question of Excess (Bernard McGuirk);
and a Bibliography of Arthur Terry's Publications.

Copies of Word in Time may be obtained from the Publications Officer at the Department of Literature, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ, UK (or ordered by e-mail from: burne@essex.ac.uk).

UK £10 - US $18 (or reduced price for BCLA members: UK £8 - US $15)
ISBN 0950793914.

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