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Histrionic Translation : A Methodology For Promoting The Translator's Inter-Subjectivity As Co-Producer, Fei Yue Tsang
Histrionic Translation : A Methodology For Promoting The Translator's Inter-Subjectivity As Co-Producer, Fei Yue Tsang
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This thesis will focus on Ezra Pound’s poem, Histrion, its associations with Stanislavskian method acting and their interface with translation studies. The title of “Histrion” is derived from the Latin word for an actor and Pound clearly wishes to suggest strong parallels between the voice of the poet and the voice of the actor. The work evokes a clairvoyant state of heightened consciousness achieved by the poet, in which he melds the subjectivities of the modern writer and the “souls of all men great” (earlier poets such as Dante and Villon) in a translucent flame of fused …