METAMORPHOSES
April 1998
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The following is the Table of Contents from the April 1998 edition of Metamorphoses. Some of the selections are available on-line;
the complete edition, including the original language versions for poetry, is available only in print.
FICTION and OTHER PROSE
| JIM MARANIS | Translating Antonio
Benitez-Rojo Translation Seminar Lecture delivered at Mount Holyoke (Oct. '97) |
8 |
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| ADAM J. SORKIN | "I Was of Three Minds": Some Observations on Translating Poetry | 19 | |
| EDWARD RADZINSKY | The Princess
Tarakonova Translated from the Russian by Laszlo Tikos |
13 |
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| FRANZ KAFKA | A Message from the Emperor A Fratricide Translated from the German by James Gibbs |
50 51 |
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| SARA LIDMAN | Lovers of
Svappavaara Translated from the Swedish by Eva Claeson |
53 |
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| PROSPER MÉRIMÉE | Mateo Falcone Translated from the French by Helene Cantarella |
58 |
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| DAVID DAUBE | Shakespeare on Aliens Learning English | 70 |
POETRY
| DANTE ALIGHERI | Purgatorio IX Translated from the Italian by W. S. Merwin |
86 |
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| M. LOMONOSOV | Ode from the Book of Job Translated from the Russian by Dean Furbish |
96 |
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| A HANDFUL OF MUSHROOMS: POEMS BY EMILY DICKINSON, SYLVIA PLATH, RICHARD WILBUR, W.S. MERWIN, AND ALESSANDRO FERACE |
Translations from the English
by Alessandro
Ferace Translation from the Italian by Alessandro Ferace with Melinda Kennedy Photograph by Lester Talkington |
108 110 114 118 120 |
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| DU FU | Spring Prospect From the Lake Tower Translated from the Chinese by William Mullen |
122 124 |
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| GIACOMO LEOPARDI | The Infinite Translations from the Italian by David Bourbeau, Ron Banerjee, and W. S. Merwin |
126 |
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| HOMER | Shifting Tides in Translation: A
Comparison Translations from the Greek by Robert Fagles, Robert Fitzgerald, H. S. Butcher, Andrew Lang, Richard Lattimore, Alexander Pope, A. V. Rieu, W. H. D. Rouse, Carolyn Smith, and T. E. Shaw, with commentaries by Carolyn Smith, John Keats, and Melinda Kennedy Photographs: Siphnian Frieze at Delphi, detail, by Clarence Kennedy |
130 |
REVIEWS
| RON BANERJEE | The Muse of Exile | 152 |
REFLECTIONS
| MELINDA KENNEDY | Once Upon a Time | 158 |