Introduction "The Trick of Doubling Oneself" -- Elizaveta Kul'man: The Most Polyglot of Russian Poets -- Wassily Kandinsky's Trilingual Poetry -- Marina Tsvetaeva's Self-Translation into French -- Vladimir Nabokov's Dilemma of Self-Translation -- Joseph Brodsky in English -- Self-Translation among Contemporary Russian-American Poets -- Conclusion
Summary
"Examining the work of Elizaveta Borisovna Kul'man, Wassily Kandinsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodsky, Andrey Gritsman, and Katia Kapovich-seven Russian poets of the past two hundred years who self-translated their work-The Bilingual Muse contributes to the rapidly growing field of self-translation studies and sheds light on an overlooked chapter of Russian literary history in a transnational context"-- Provided by publisher
Local Note
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Access
Open Access Unrestricted online access
Subject
Self-translation.
Russian poetry.
Multilingualism and literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Autotraduction.
Poesie russe -- Traductions -- Histoire et critique.
