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  • The Magic Mirror of Literary Translation

    Reflections on the Art of Translating Verse

    de Eric Sellin ...
    Sellin invites readers to explore the daunting and often unsung work of literary translators. With wry humor and an engaging conversational style, Sellin shares his insight on the art and science of translation, including the many nuanced solutions he’s developed for some of the more sensitive problems that frustrate translators of formal poetry. The essays offer a balance of commentary on ... Leer más

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  • The Dramatic Concepts of Antonin Artaud

    de Eric Sellin ...
    Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) conceived and inaugurated the 'Theater of Cruelty,' a dramatic movement that has had a profound influence on the avant-garde theater in Europe and the United States. The movement is exemplified by the Peter Brook production of Marat-Sade. This book, the first to analyze Artaud's theories, their sources, and the extent to which he succeeded in implementing them in his own ... Leer más

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  • Arabs and the Art of Storytelling

    A Strange Familiarity

    Traducido por Mbarek Sryfi, Eric Sellin ...
    Series series Middle East Literature In Translation
    In Arabs and the Art of Storytelling, the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. He brings to such celebrated texts as A Thousand and One Nights, Kalila and Dimna, and Kitab al-Bukhala’ refreshing and iconoclastic insight, giving new life to classic stories that are often treated as ... Leer más

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  • The Blueness of the Evening

    Selected Poems of Hassan Najmi

    This selection of Hassan Najmi’s poems, translated by Mbarek Sryfi and Eric Sellin, provides an excellent introduction to the work of one of Morocco’s foremost poets and to a school of modern verse emerging in the Arab World. Scenes of late night cityscapes, lonely interiors, awe-inspiring desert wastes, and seaside vistas are found within the exquisitely subtle lyric moods and nuances of Najmi’s ... Leer más

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  • Collected Poems

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