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- Title: Puskin and Southey: Russia's Greatest Poet Translates England's Poet Laureate (1) (Aleksandr Sergeevic Puskin, Laureate Robert Southey)
- Author : Germano-Slavica
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 241 KB
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In his truly pioneering achievement in editing the recently published history of Russian literary translation through the eighteenth century, (2) Jurij D. Levin has presided over a project of inestimable value to Russian literary scholarship. Literary translation in Russia throughout its modern history has occupied a position of vital importance probably unique among the major Western literatures, although political ideology has controlled it and officially minimized its importance. Respect for translated works can be traced back to the time of Peter the Great, who recognized the backwardness of Russian technology and industry and initiated a flood of translations of Western technical works. Through diligent and accurate translations of foreign models, Russian literature, in spite of its late beginnings (compared to English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish literatures, for example), has managed to introduce into Russia the literary movements and genres of the West and to compress them, and thus in the nineteenth century to overtake Western literatures in development. The most apt quotation Levin could find to introduce his history of translation project was one from 1857 by the much-cited social and literary critic Nikolaj Gavrilovic Cernysevskij (1828-89): [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].
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