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A Journey in Translation: Anne Hébert's Poetry in English

A Journey in Translation: Anne Hébert's Poetry in English

Bessette, Lee Skallerup

Paperback

Series: Canadian Literature Collection

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 0776623761
ISBN13: 9780776623764
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: Aug 18 2016
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

This book traces the remarkable journey of Hébert's shifting authorial identity as versions of her work traveled through complex and contested linguistic and national terrain from the late 1950s until today. At the center of this exploration of Hébert's work are the people who were inspired by her poetry to translate and more widely disseminate her poems to a wider audience. Exactly how did this one woman's work travel so much farther than the vast majority of Québécois authors? Though the haunting quality of her art partly explains her wide appeal, her work would have never traveled so far without the effort of scores of passionately committed translators, editors, and archivists. Though the work of such middle men is seldom recognized, much less scrutinized as a factor in shaping the meaning and reach of an artist, in Herbert's case, the process of translating Hébert's poetry has left in its wake a number of archival and other paratextual resources that chronicle the individual acts of translation and their reception.

Published in English.

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