Rome's Wreck Translated from the English of Edmund Spenser's Ruines of Rome |
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| Author:
| Joyce, Trevor |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9905461-0-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2014 |
| Publisher: | Cusp Books
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.00 |
Book Description:
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In Rome's Wreck, Irish poet Trevor Joyce "translates" Edmund Spenser's earlier English translation of Joachim du Bellay's Les Antiquités de Rome [1558] as The Ruines of Rome [1591]. Rather than an interlingual translation, Joyce's is a translation from one English into another, subject to a singular constraint: that it be completely done over into monosyllables. The result is a colloquial yet uncanny undoing of Spenser's work and a postmodern meditation on fame and mortal decay.
In Rome's Wreck, Irish poet Trevor Joyce "translates" Edmund Spenser's earlier English translation of Joachim du Bellay's Les Antiquités de Rome [1558] as The Ruines of Rome [1591]. Rather than an interlingual translation, Joyce's is a translation from one English into another, subject to a singular constraint: that it be completely done over into monosyllables. The result is a colloquial yet uncanny undoing of Spenser's work and a postmodern meditation on fame and mortal decay.