Underlying Rhythm: On Translation, Communication, and Literary Languages. Essays in Honor of Burton Pike - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1800799802 ISBN 13: 9781800799806

Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers, 2023

Synopsis

This volume explores the importance of scholarly and literary communities, the challenges of translation and difference, and the search for the ineffable in art. It is a collection of interviews, translations, scholarly essays, and tributes in honor of Burton Pike (1930–2022), a renowned translator of Robert Musil, Rilke, Goethe, Gerhard Meier, and others, as well as a scholar of literary Modernism and the image of the city. He was also an extraordinary teacher, mentor, and inspiration to a generation. The pieces are mostly written by former students, colleagues, and admiring friends, but the book also includes two interviews with Pike, along with Pike’s own previously unpublished lecture on Thomas Mann’s last novel, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Constantine is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Connecticut.

Robert Cowan is Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY.

Henry N. Gifford is a freelance copy editor and writer.

Genese Grill is a Musil scholar, translator, essayist, and former student of Burton Pike.

James Keller is Adjunct Assistant Professor of German at Pasadena City College in California, a translator, and former student of Burton Pike.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800799802
• ISBN 13: 9781800799806
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 266
• Editor: Constantine Peter, Cowan Robert, Gifford Henry, Grill Genese, Keller James