The Duende in England: Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” in Translation

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Autor(a) principal: Bennett, Karen
Data de Publicação: 2002
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/5848
Resumo: Transporting the passionate instinctual world of rural Andalusia onto the cold rational terrain of modern-day England would seem to be a feat fraught with difficulties. The ‘conceptual grid’ is so different, that we might expect most of the symbolic depth and intensity of the play to be lost. Yet, in recent years, there has been a massive interest in Lorca’s works, and in this play in particular, with numerous translations and productions. How can we account for this? Does the tale of a blood feud in Andalusia really have something to say to a British audience, or is Lorca’s work being appropriated to serve some other purpose on the home agenda? And above all, what happens to the duende - that ‘mysterious power which everyone senses and no philosopher explains’ - in a society where the dark forces of nature have been almost entirely tamed by the Apollonian power of human reason?
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spelling The Duende in England: Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” in TranslationLorca, Federico Garcia, 1898-1936. Bodas de SangueBlood WeddingtranslationEnglishDuendeTransporting the passionate instinctual world of rural Andalusia onto the cold rational terrain of modern-day England would seem to be a feat fraught with difficulties. The ‘conceptual grid’ is so different, that we might expect most of the symbolic depth and intensity of the play to be lost. Yet, in recent years, there has been a massive interest in Lorca’s works, and in this play in particular, with numerous translations and productions. How can we account for this? Does the tale of a blood feud in Andalusia really have something to say to a British audience, or is Lorca’s work being appropriated to serve some other purpose on the home agenda? And above all, what happens to the duende - that ‘mysterious power which everyone senses and no philosopher explains’ - in a society where the dark forces of nature have been almost entirely tamed by the Apollonian power of human reason?Edinburgh University PressRepositório da Universidade de LisboaBennett, Karen2012-04-03T10:48:50Z20022002-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/5848engBennett, Karen. ‘The Duende in England: Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” in Translation’ in Translation and Literature, Vol. 11 (1), Edinburgh, 20020968-1361info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T15:47:45Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/5848Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:31:01.940292Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title The Duende in England: Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” in Translation
spellingShingle The Duende in England: Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” in Translation
Bennett, Karen
Lorca, Federico Garcia, 1898-1936. Bodas de Sangue
Blood Wedding
translation
English
Duende
title_short The Duende in England: Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” in Translation
title_full The Duende in England: Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” in Translation
title_fullStr The Duende in England: Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” in Translation
title_full_unstemmed The Duende in England: Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” in Translation
title_sort The Duende in England: Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” in Translation
author Bennett, Karen
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Lorca, Federico Garcia, 1898-1936. Bodas de Sangue
Blood Wedding
translation
English
Duende
topic Lorca, Federico Garcia, 1898-1936. Bodas de Sangue
Blood Wedding
translation
English
Duende
description Transporting the passionate instinctual world of rural Andalusia onto the cold rational terrain of modern-day England would seem to be a feat fraught with difficulties. The ‘conceptual grid’ is so different, that we might expect most of the symbolic depth and intensity of the play to be lost. Yet, in recent years, there has been a massive interest in Lorca’s works, and in this play in particular, with numerous translations and productions. How can we account for this? Does the tale of a blood feud in Andalusia really have something to say to a British audience, or is Lorca’s work being appropriated to serve some other purpose on the home agenda? And above all, what happens to the duende - that ‘mysterious power which everyone senses and no philosopher explains’ - in a society where the dark forces of nature have been almost entirely tamed by the Apollonian power of human reason?
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