Overt translation strategies in the histories of Robert Lowell and Ezra Pound

Anthony Pym

doi:10.5007/2175-8026.2019v72n2p399

Authors

Anthony Pym Universitat Rovira i Virgili https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9440-0886

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2019v72n2p399

Abstract

The present article analyzes the overt translation strategies in Robert Lowell’s Imitations and Ezra Pound’s The Cantos, indicating the conscious use of error as a compositional principle for the construction of knowledge through the distance of foreign documents.

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