This paper examines how a ‘Birmingham’ version of Homer’s Iliad – one composed in a Brummie dialect and, ironically, ‘a cheap, showy, imitation’ – challenges the terms of Lawrence Venuti’s valuable distinction between domesticating and foreignizing translation strategies. In particular, by employing...
This paper examines how a ‘Birmingham’ version of Homer’s Iliad – one composed in a Brummie dialect and, ironically, ‘a cheap, showy, imitation’ – challenges the terms of Lawrence Venuti’s valuable distinction between domesticating and foreignizing translation strategies. In particular, by employing...
This paper examines how a ‘Birmingham’ version of Homer’s Iliad – one composed in a Brummie dialect and, ironically, ‘a cheap, showy, imitation’ – challenges the terms of Lawrence Venuti’s valuable distinction between domesticating and foreignizing translation strategies. In particular, by employing...
A "contrapuntal translation" of Ronsard’s ode "La défloration de Lède" (published in 1550), which was the first extended depiction of the rape of Leda by the swan in the poetic canon. An extended endnote discusses the problematic theme and several of its most famous treatments, concluding with an ex...
Thèse expérimentale en « Creative Writing », The Birmingham Quean comprend trois fils de composition. D’abord un poème héroï-comique qui rappelle The Rape of the Lock de Pope, mais composé en utilisant la strophe de Don Juan de Byron, raconte une journée dans la vie d’une pièce de fausse monnaie. La...
