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The Foreign Connection: Writings on Poetry, Art and Translation

The Foreign Connection: Writings on Poetry, Art and Translation

McKendrick, Jamie

Hardcover

Series: Transcript, Book 17

Letters & EssaysLiterary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1781885001
ISBN13: 9781781885000
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Sep 28 2020
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.51
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

The word 'foreign' has gathered hostile associations but its Latin root - foris: a door - is close to the spirit of these writings which explore openings and connections across and within artforms, eras, cultures and languages. McKendrick traces a series of dynamic, often unexpected refigurations of idea, image and structure from Gaius Valerius Catullus to Valerio Magrelli, from the French early Renaissance miniaturist Jean Bourdichon to the contemporary Belgian painter Luc Tuymans. Various kinds of translation and traversal are central to these essays which consider art and poetry from Italy, France, Germany, Russia as well as Ireland, Britain and the U.S. Other topics include Titian's debt to Ovid and Catullus, Dante seen through translation and through Botticelli's illustrations, Michelangelo as poet, Blake as painter, the use of Plutarch by Shakespeare and Cavafy, the strange convergences between Whitman and Baudelaire, and Elizabeth Bishop, as both poet and painter, as well as her Baudelairean correspondences.

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