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31 - Poetry, (Un)Translatability, and World Literature

from Part VI - Poetics, Genre, Intermediality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2021

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Jahan Ramazani
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Debjani Ganguly
Debjani Ganguly
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University of Virginia
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What is the place of poetry in world literature? World literature has been defined as writing as gains in translation, but this model excludes poetry tied to the language in which it is written. Poetry has also been said to be untranslatable, but this opposing model can’t account for the aspects of poetry that survive and even thrive in translation. Exploring lyrics in Persian, German, Latin, French, and code-switching English, this chapter tests the “gains-in-translation” and “untranslatability” models against poetry’s language-specific and language-crossing affordances. Proposing a more nuanced position that allows for both losses and gains, it argues that world literature can only be adequate to poetry if it’s attentive to comparative literary specificity.

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lyricpoetrytranslationworld literatureJalal al-Din Rumi
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The Cambridge History of World Literature , pp. 587 - 620
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Print publication year: 2021

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