“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 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2017-08-01
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Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/12031 |
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