Before 2020, Covid reached these shores, before social distancing, before lockdown, before homeschooling, before facemasks; before Zoom; before misguided handshakes and reasonable judgements, a group of academics, students, translators and interested parties met in Glasgow to hold the final event Read More …
A guest post by Professor Susan Bassnett High above the shores of Lake Garda is the villa where Gabriele d’Annunzio spent the last years of his life, the Vittoriale. Its full title is Il Vittoriale degli italiani, which roughly translates Read More …
A post by Eleanor Keane (Goldsmiths) On the 13th December 2019, scholars of decadent literature from across Europe and the US gathered at the University of Glasgow for the Decadence and Translation Network’s highly anticipated ‘Translating Decadence’ workshop. This event Read More …
Over the summer, we released a version of seven poems by the French poet, Stéphane Mallarmé on this site as a translation case study. We posted images of hand-written manuscripts held in Special Collections at the Glasgow University Library. And Read More …
Earlier this year, we launched an online case translation case study using manuscripts from Récréations postales by Stéphane Mallarmé. Posting images of these manuscripts on this site, we invited visitors to look at these short poems and a prose translation and Read More …
Today’s post is written by Jarkko Tanninen and Candice Walker, former students at University of Glasgow. For two weeks in June this year, we took part in the Récréations postales project to create a digital exhibition out of manuscripts by Stéphane Read More …
A Post by Michael Shaw (University of Stirling) Forty miles southwest of Strasbourg lies the historic town of Colmar, home to one of the masterpieces of Northern Renaissance art – Matthais Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-16). Depicting the latter stages of Christ’s Read More …
Guest contributor: Stina Nölken Who speaks in a translation? What happens to a translator’s own identity or voice when translating? And what about the voice of the writer being translated? In my previous post, I showed how Baudelaire’s imagined re-creation Read More …
Guest contributor: Stina Nölken Why were the poets of the nineteenth century so fascinated with the Greek poetess, Sappho? Why did they so eagerly turn her into an image of decadence? Over two blogposts I shall try to find some Read More …
In a previous post, I wrote about the ‘Récréations postales’ by Stéphane Mallarmé: this is a series of 89 quatrain poems that each encode an address to appear on the front of an envelope. They are addressed to friends of Read More …