“Un-American Confessions”: Translation as Subversion in Robert Lowell’s Life Studies (1959)

This article argues that Robert Lowell’s employment of techniques of poetic "imitation" - a liberal form of translation - during the composition of the Life Studies poems allows him to simultaneously stage and to conceal his reliance upon foreign poetic sources. Lowell’s Life Studies imita...

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Main Author: Simon Van Schalkwyk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2017-08-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/12031
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