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BibTeX citation key: Haldane2005
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Haldane, M. G. (2005). The open valley: Translation, transmission and transfiguration of the sonnet in sixteenth-century England, and the triumph of form. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Essex (United Kingdom).
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Categories: translation studies
Keywords: Rhetoric Composition English literature
Creators: Haldane
Publisher: University of Essex (United Kingdom)
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Abstract
This thesis purposes to study the question of poetic form through the glass of translation and likewise to examine the art of translation from the perspective of poetic form, in a mutually enriching process, making a contribution to the following fields: the sonnet-form; the nature and functions of rhyme; the unwritten theory of the sonnet-sequence; translation in 16 th -century England and Europe; and translation studies in general. It also attempts to enhance the critical understanding of the four translators on whom close attention is fixed: Thomas Wyatt, the Earl of Surrey, Edmund Spenser and Bartholomew Yong. Close readings will examine the concept of a 'literal' translation (Wyatt); Surrey's use of rhyme and the difference between his sonnet-form and that of the late Elizabethans; Spenser's translations of his blank-verse sonnet-sequence, in order to scrutinise the creative power of rhyme and the translatorial identity which works together with its promptings; and Bartholomew Yong's translations of sonnets in Spanish pastoral novels, with the aim of demonstrating the depth of meaning which can be achieved through the retention of the Petrarchian octet in translation. Background issues will also be considered, most notably the reasons for the paucity of translations of Petrarca in England in the 16 th century when compared with the rest of Europe, and the relationship between national identity, personal identity, and poetic form.
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