Translating the Poetry of the Holocaust: Translation, style and the reader

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Taking a cognitive approach, this book asks what poetry, and in particular Holocaust poetry, does to the reader - and to what extent the translation of this poetry can have the same effects. It is informed by current theoretical discussion and features many practical examples. Holocaust poetry differs from other genres of writing about the Holocaust in that it is not so much concerned to document facts as to document feelings and the sense of an experience. It shares the potential of all poetry to have profound effects on the thoughts and feelings of the reader. This book examines how the openness to engagement that Holocaust poetry can engender, achieved through stylistic means, needs to be preserved in translation if the translated poem is to function as a Holocaust poem in any meaningful sense. This is especially true when historical and cultural distance intervenes. The first book of its kind and by a world-renowned scholar and translator, this is required reading. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Acknowledgements Copyright acknowledgements Chapter 1 Holocaust poetry and Holocaust poetics 1.1 What is Holocaust poetry? 1.2 Holocaust poetics 1.3 Poetry, empathy and the reader 1.4 The silences of Holocaust poetry 1.5 Lost worlds, longed-for worlds, impossible worlds and deadly worlds 1.6 Beyond the text: The translation of Holocaust poetics Chapter 2 Reading Holocaust poetry in and as translation 2.1 Holocaust poetry and the reader 2.2 Translated poetry and analytical reading Chapter 3 Translating Holocaust poetry 3.1 Reading Holocaust poetry for translation 3.2 Translating to engage the reader Chapter 4 Translation and understanding 4.1 Translated Holocaust poetry and the education of the reader 4.2 The afterlife of Holocaust poetry Notes References Index