"Politics and Poetics in Late Victorian Translation" by Semele Assinder

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‘To Say the Same Thing in Different Words’: Politics and Poetics in Late Victorian Translation from Modern Greek

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Against a backdrop of Victorian academic gender politics, the woman warrior from War of Independence folk songs emerged in British women’s writings. After a close reading of a translation by Elizabeth Edmonds, Modern Greek is reviewed as a contender for the New Woman’s Classics.

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Semele Assinder is a PhD scholar the University of Cambridge.

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Assinder, Semele (2012). ‘To Say the Same Thing in Different Words’: Politics and Poetics in Late Victorian Translation from Modern Greek. Journal of International Women's Studies, 13(6), 72-84.
Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol13/iss6/7

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