Ezra Pound’s Adaptation and Translation of the Japanese Nō

Réka MİHÁLKA

Article Details

Ezra Pound’s Adaptation and Translation of the Japanese Nō

Authors:

Réka MİHÁLKA

Publisher:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Journal:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2010 Issue 32, pp.19-27

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2010

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734551

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

pISSN:

1300-6606

Abstract:

 

Few would ever contest the axiom that translation and adaptation are  partially overlapping   segments of the same continuum. If attempts at definitions have shown anything, it is their  inseparability, even though many scholars and critics like to stress their distinctiveness  e.g. through  the dichotomy of “faithfulness” vs. “innovativeness” . Among others, the subject of the present  article, Ezra Pound, also insisted on the distinction between “interpretative translation”  i.e. the  majority of translations  and the “other sort”  i.e. adaptation :  In the long run the translator is in all probability impotent to do all of the work for  the linguistically lazy reader. He can show where the treasure lies, he can guide the  reader in choice of what tongue is to be studied, and he can very materially assist the  hurried student who has a smattering of a language and the energy to read the original  text alongside the metrical gloze.

Article Details

Ezra Pound’s Adaptation and Translation of the Japanese Nō

Authors: Réka MİHÁLKA

Publisher: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Journal: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2010 Issue 32, pp.19-27

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 9/2010

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000734551

Frequency: Bi-Annual

pISSN: 1300-6606

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Authors:

Réka MİHÁLKA

Publisher:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Journal:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2010 Issue 32, pp.19-27

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2010

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734551

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

pISSN:

1300-6606