Migration and Mutation

Carole Birkan-Berz is Associate Professor of Literary Translation at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, France. She has published widely on the contemporary English sonnet and on poetry translation. Her most recent edited book is Translating Petrarch’s Poetry: L’Aura del Petrarca from the Quattrocento to the 21st Century (2020). Oriane Monthéard is Associate Professor of Translation and British Culture and Literature at the University of Rouen-Normandie, France. She has also translated many works of contemporary poetry including Stephen Rodefer and Ron Padgett as part of the collective Double Change. Erin Cunningham has recently completed a PhD on the sonnet in modern and contemporary Irish poetry at King's College London, UK.

• Foreword David Duff, Queen Mary University of London, UKIntroductionCarole Birkan-Berz, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, FrancePart One: Revisiting early modern circulations1. Poetic furor in translation: Spenser's and Sylvester's sonnet collectionsPadraic Lamb, University of Lyon, France2. The fashioning of English anti-Petrarchism: Spenser and Shakespeare remembering Du BellayLine Cottegnies, Université Sorbonne, France3. ‘Translated out of Ronsard'?: A misattributed translation of Petrarch’s RVF 48 by Sir John BoroughGuillaume Coatalen, CY Cergy Paris University, France4. Paving the way for Opitz: The first German sonnets at the crossroads of European circulation networks, 1556-1604Elisabeth Rothmund, Université Sorbonne, France Part Two: Sonnet translation as a space for poetic imagination5. Keats’s sonnets and the translation process: Mediation, conversion and responseOriane Monthéard, University of Rouen, France6. On translating Les Chimères by Gérard de NervalPeter Valente, Independent Scholar7. Reshaping Rilke: A comparative approach to the latest translations of Die Sonette an Orpheus into EnglishFrédéric Weinmann, Independent Scholar8. Fernando Pessoa's sonnets - dislocations in form, persona and languageCarlos A. Pitella, Centre for Theatre Studies of the University of Lisbon, Portugal9. English sonnet spaces in Jacques Roubaud's Churchill 40Thea Petrou, Independent Scholar 10. Lyrical gestures: The essence of the form and the spirit of the translated text in Don Paterson’s ‘versions’ of sonnets Bastien Goursaud, UPEC Université Paris Est Créteil, FrancePart Three: Sonnet migrations across and outside Europe: Translating as a political act11. Translation and transnationalism: Reframing the contemporary Irish sonnetErin Cunningham, Independent Scholar12. Sonnet translation and imitation during the Second World War: Maintaining the idea of Europe? Thomas Vuong, Independent Scholar13.Translating Genrikh Sapgir’s Sonnets on ShirtsDmitri Manin, Independent Scholar14. The vulgar eloquence of Singaporean sonnetsTse Hao Guang, Independent Scholar Part Four: Cross-media adaptations and beyond15. On the theatricality of the Canzoniere, from medieval to modern timesJean-Luc Nardone, Toulouse Jean Jaurès University, France16. Raymond Queneau’s Cent mille milliards de poèmes: An attempt to exhaust the sonnetNatalie Berkman, SAE Institute, Paris, France17. The Four Seasons in flux: Translating the sonnets from Vivaldi's score in relation to performances by Nigel KennedyPaul Munden, University of Leeds, UK, and University of Canberra, Australia, and Anouska Zummo, Independent Scholar18. Debating sonnet translation in the Soviet and post-Soviet era: Rethinking and transforming the Russian sonnetAlexander Markov, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, RussiaBibliographyIndex

This volume defies the legendary sense of formal closure associated with the sonnet to show how that form has thrived in translation, and how sonnets have occasioned transformations and reinventions in other media. Contributors range from theorists of translation and poetics to poets and practicing translators, giving the book a commanding breadth and facilitating lively conversations across the chapters.