What is it about?
Logue brings Homer to life for a present-day audience, through his way with words and his dramatic use of characters.
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Why is it important?
Too frequently the strengths in Logue's writing are overlooked; by focussing on specific passages and comparing them with like passages from other translations, the article helps draw attention to Logue's technical proficiency and his imaginative daring.
Perspectives
The article is a type of celebration of the continuing fascination and pleasure to be derived from a tradition that stretches back over the millennia. It highlights the extraordinary potential of language and imagery to do so, despite translation, despite historical and social change.
Nicholas Meihuizen
North West University Potchefstroom campus
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This page is a summary of: Contemporization and Characterization in Christopher Logue's Homer, Translation and Literature, November 2019, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/tal.2019.0386.
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