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Monday, May 21, 2001
The Uses of Enchantment
In ''The Little Mermaid,'' Hans Christian Andersen suggests that immortality can serve as a substitute, however unsatisfactory, for human love. The story is clearly an allegory for his own life, for the unloved Andersen, more than 125 years after his death, can lay as good a claim as anyone to artistic immortality. At a time when children's stories were exclusively moral and didactic, he revolutionized the genre by infusing it with the humor, anarchy and sorrow of great literature. He expressed the most painful and rawest emotions with extraordinary aesthetic control; the results rivaled anything produced by the great Romantic writers who were his contemporaries. In his simple, unpretentious way he told us as much about the human condition (think of ''The Emperor's New Clothes,'' ''The Snow Queen,'' ''The Fir Tree'') as any of the world's writers and philosophers.
The New York Times Book Review
posted by Marco Graziosi Monday, May 21, 2001
Tuesday, May 01, 2001
How Come the Translation of a Limerick Can Have Four Lines (Or Can It?)
by Gideon Toury
in: Word, Text, Translation: Liber Amicorum for Peter Newmark,
eds Gunilla Anderman & Margaret Rogers. Clevedon etc.: Multilingual Matters, 1999, 163-174.
posted by Marco Graziosi Tuesday, May 01, 2001
Poetics of Children's Literature
by Zohar Shavit
The University of Georgia Press, Athens and London, 1986 ©
[Full text online.]
posted by Marco Graziosi Tuesday, May 01, 2001
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