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Carrying Over: Poetry as Translation in Early Romantic Poetics

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Carrying Over: Poetry as Translation in Early Romantic Poetics

[Thesis]

Adam Nagi Ahmed

Goodman, Kevis

University of California, Berkeley

2017

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Committee members: Goldsmith, Steven; Kaufman, Robert

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-57232-2

Ph.D.

English

University of California, Berkeley

2017

Carrying Over reconsiders the widely held Romantic-era belief in poetry as a universal form by arguing for the centrality of linguistic and cultural translation within early Romantic poetics. It traces Romantic encounters with Eastern genres alongside an emerging imperial sense of the world in eighteenth-century British systems of knowledge, including philology, pedagogy, and biblical criticism. Expanding recent postcolonial accounts of world literature's colonial origins, I show how Romantic works responded to a mounting scholarly effort to codify literature within England and its colonial peripheries. While Orientalist philologists like William Jones claimed to demonstrate ''what true poetry ought to be'' through their translations of Oriental works into familiar genres like the lyric and the romance, Romantic adaptations of non-Western forms (such as the Arabian Nights tale and the proverb) suggested what poetry could be once detached from these dominant modes. Indeed, I claim that these engagements with Oriental forms transfer, or ''carry over,'' problems of translation into issues of interpretation-moments of unintelligibility in which the poem appears as an agent of translation rather than its object. In doing so, these poets revise the world-literary assumption that locates poetry in European modes of expression, suggesting instead that poetry's displaced origin precedes and lies outside of national forms.

Literary translation; Recursion; Poetry; Semiotics; Coda (Phonology); Literary criticism; Vision; Romance languages; Philology; 18th century; Poetics; Proverbs; Culture; Bible; Rhyme (Phonology); British & Irish literature

Language, literature and linguistics;Cultural translation;Orientalism;Romantic poetry;Translation;World literature

Imranuddin, Mohammed

Goodman, Kevis

English

University of California, Berkeley

2013736313; 10620428

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