> > **************** > > Dear All, > > The inaugural panel discussion last week was very well received and extremely > well attended -– thanks to all of you who took part and made it such a > success! > > The next event will be held at the same time/place: > > Wednesday 28th October > 2.30pm -- 4.30pm > Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building (Sidgwick Site) > > The will take the form of a workshop on poetry translation and will be led by > Prof. Robin Kirkpatrick. Taking as a starting point some extracts from > Dante’s Commedia, the session will explore questions of metre, figurative > diction, ‘linguistic density’ and discuss some of the strategies available to > translators of poetry. > > Participants will then be invited to translate a few lines from a poem > inspired by Dante, which will be provided on the day, choosing from English, > French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese sources. Those of you who > wish to translate from other languages, please select your own poem and bring > it to the workshop. You are also encouraged to bring your laptops/smart > phones to access dictionaries and other useful resources. > > After the session, tea and coffee will be served in the foyer. We hope you > will be able to join us! > > > The CCiT Convenors > ==========================================================================
> Robin Kirkpatrick is an Emeritus Professor of Italian and English Literature > at the University of Cambridge. He has written a number of books on Dante and > on the Renaissance. He is particularly interested in the relationship between > Italian and English literature from 1300 to 1600 and in the Modern Period. > His highly acclaimed verse translation of the Commedia with notes and > commentary was published by Penguin Classics in 2006-7. > ========================================================================== > > For information on CCiTrans mailing list visit: > https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/crassh-ccitrans > For information on our Research Group visit our web page: > http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/cambridge-conversations-in-translation ******************************************************************************************** Miss Charlie Evans, Secretarial Assistant Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA Tel: (01223) (3)35090, email: [email protected] ****************************************************************************************** _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
