Underlying Rhythm

This volume explores the importance of scholarly and literary communities, the challenges of translation and difference, and the search for the ineffable in art. It is a collection of interviews, translations, essays and tributes in honor of the translator and scholar Burton Pike.

Autorentext

Peter Constantine is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Connecticut. Robert Cowan is Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY. Henry N. Gifford is a freelance copy editor and writer. Genese Grill is a Musil scholar, translator, essayist, and former student of Burton Pike. James Keller is Adjunct Assistant Professor of German at Pasadena City College in California, a translator, and former student of Burton Pike.

Inhalt

Contents: Introduction An Interview with Burton Pike Growing Up in Language and Music: An Interview with Burton Pike With All the Senses: A Translation of Klaus Mann's "Gimietto" with Commentary Short Prose from Contemplation by Franz Kafka, with Commentary Translation of a Passage from Madame Bovary, with Commentary An Ode to Rome, and a Translation of Lucio Mariani's "Roman Ode" Letters on The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil Armand de Kroullosta: Thomas Mann's Confessions of the Confidence ManA Lecture The City as TK Accessing Ludwig Hohl Arnheim and His Discontents in Musil's The Man without Qualities The Birth of Modern Czech Out of the Spirit of the Austrian Enlightenment Diderot and Musil: Negative Capability as Ironic Acting Pre- Existing Conditions: The Diseased Urban Self in Andrei Bitov's The Pushkin House The Utopia of Metaphor as Translation The Art of Betrayal: Translation in an Age of Suspicion Acceptance Speech for the Friedrich Ulfers Prize, 2016 Laudation for Burton Pike as He Is Awarded the 2016 Friedrich Ulfers Prize [Adapted and Updated in 2022] Stalking the Ineffable A Tribute to Burt Pike Celebrating Burton Pike Burton Pike in Vienna, circa 1994 Reminiscence A Mental Desk with Many Drawers Tribute.