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This article comparatively examines three German-language versions of the poem by Emma Clausen, Wilhelm Schölermann, and Albrecht Schaeffer to show how the practice of poetry translation resists the source object, translating for poetry’s sake.
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This article also draws out the value of thinking about German translations of Wilde’s prison poem, which are consistently underexamined yet prolific in number.
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This page is a summary of: For Poetry's Sake: Resistance to Translation in the German Versions of Oscar Wilde's THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL, Linguaculture, December 2023, Editura Universitatii Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi,
DOI: 10.47743/lincu-2023-2-0338.
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