One Hundred Frogs in Steve McCaffery’s The Basho Variations

The article discusses Steve McCaffery’s The Basho Variations with a focus on various modes of transtranslation/transcreation/transaption of Matsuo Bashō’s famous frog haiku. The emphasis is placed on the complexities (of the processuality) of transtranslation which deliberately alters, distorts and...

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Autor principal:	Monika Kocot
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Publicado:	Lodz University Press 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a164166f92a945c5bf8bf258b449f8cd2021-12-01T06:51:57ZOne Hundred Frogs in Steve McCaffery’s The Basho Variations2083-29312084-574X10.18778/2083-2931.11.23https://doaj.org/article/a164166f92a945c5bf8bf258b449f8cd2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/11278https://doaj.org/toc/2083-2931https://doaj.org/toc/2084-574XThe article discusses Steve McCaffery’s The Basho Variations with a focus on various modes of transtranslation/transcreation/transaption of Matsuo Bashō’s famous frog haiku. The emphasis is placed on the complexities (of the processuality) of transtranslation which deliberately alters, distorts and reimagines the source text. The intercultural and intertextual quality of McCaffery’s poems is discussed in the context of multilevel references to classical Japanese aesthetics of haiku writing. The comparative reading of McCaffery’s and Bashō’s texts foregrounds the issue of events, or “frogmentary events,” and the importance of the role of the reader in completing poetic messages.Monika KocotLodz University Pressarticlehaikufrogsteve mccafferymatsuo bashōtranslationtranscreationtranstranslationeventLiterature (General)PN1-6790ENText Matters, Iss 11, Pp 369-388 (2021)
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One Hundred Frogs in Steve McCaffery’s The Basho Variations

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