Curious Creatures: Elizabeth Bishop’s Animals as Messages to Translate

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Curious Creatures: Elizabeth Bishop’s Animals as Messages to Translate

Original language description

Elizabeth Bishop’s poems are famously inhabited by animals, both domestic and exotic, which are met, observed, described, sometimes interacted with. The paper suggests that the way animals are treated in Bishop’s poetry can be connected to her interest in translation and to the importance of the concept of translation in her poetics. While animals are a familiar part of our world, they are simultaneously strange representatives of a different world, which can be easily encountered, but hardly ever fully understood and known. In trying to approach the animals and to bridge the fundamental difference between us and them, it does not only become obvious that a complete understanding, a perfect translation, is impossible, but the meeting with the strange and unknowable also casts a different perspective on what has seemed known and familiar so far. In the meeting of the strange world of animals, our own world starts feeling strange, unknown, and unknowable, too. The tension between familiarity and foreignness, and the skepticism about the possibilities of knowledge are characteristic of Bishop’s poetics, and they can be well illustrated on her treatment of animals, including some of the very famous ones, such as the fish from “The Fish”, the seal from “At the Fishhouses”, or the moose from “The Moose”.

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60205 - Literary theory

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies

ISSN

2336-3347

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Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

"90–100"

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