Marco Sonzogni

Back cover Lying at the core of our interactions, words are both salves and weapons, they can be simple and fork-tongued. How we read, how we misinterpret each other, can reveal the nature of our society - its diversity, complexity and richness. These stories riff on this ambiguity of understanding: there are vivid scenes from our colonial past right up to the current day; a previous prime minister tries to dodge a photographer; a writer reworks a film premise over and over again; taggers express themselves in their own language; couples lock horns while strangers are brought together. There is humour, there is poignancy, there is terrific writing. This is a collection that will provoke, stimulate and delight. Front flap Differing interpretations can define and bind us, as New Zealanders have discovered with the Treaty of Waitangi. The starting-off point for this collection of short stories is a piece of text or image that is read differently by different people: be it because of ambiguity, or misapprehension, a problem of translation, or opposing perspectives or cultures. This book is not meant to explore the issues of the Treaty of Waitangi in any literal or direct way, but rather explore the human paradox that has followed from its writing 170 years ago: in trying to bring people together, words can also push them apart. This collection of entertaining stories reflects our society in provocative, humane and intriguing ways. Back flap Written by a mix of leading New Zealand writers, with diverse backgrounds, ranging from Maori to British, Irish to Polynesian, Chinese to Greek, this entertaining book of fictional stories engages creatively with the idea of ambiguity. Edited by Marco Sonzogni, who is an award-winning editor, translator and poet, a widely published academic and a lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at Victoria University of Wellington. The contributors are: Michelle Arathimos, Ben Brown, Ellie Catton, David Eggleton, Travis Gasper, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Briar Grace-Smith, Charlotte Grimshaw, Peter Hawes, Tim Jones, Fiona Kidman, Tze Ming Mok, Kelly Ana Morey, Paula Morris, Sue Orr, Vincent O'Sullivan, Alice Tawhai, Apirana Taylor, Albert Wendt

New Zealand Stories

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Tagli. Poesie 2009-2014

Passaggi. Poesie e prose poetiche (2014-2017)

Timothy Smith

Aotearoa Poets Respond to Dante's Purgatory

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Harry Thomas

Primo Levi

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This Way: Covering/Uncovering Tadeusz Borowski's This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen is a scholarly work that uses Borowski's stories to explore the relationship between verbal and visual representations of war and genocide through critical analysis of the entries in an international competition for a new cover for Borowski's book. This Way includes an extensive critical apparatus: foreword, introduction, academic essays, commentaries on the book covers, afterword, and notes. Authors and advisors include noted authorities on the Holocaust, Holocaust literature and Holocaust representation.

Covering/uncovering Tadeusz Borowski's this Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

This Way

Tim Smith

Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) maintained that translation destroys the harmony of poetry. Yet his Commedia has been translated into English time and again over the last two-and-a-bit centuries. At last count, one-hundred and twenty-nine different translators have published at least one canticle of the Italian masterwork since the first in 1782, and countless more have translated individual cantos. Among them there are some of the finest poets in the English language, including Robert Lowell and the Irish Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. Smith and Sonzogni have assembled and annotated two complete translations of Dante’s most popular canticle, Inferno, each canto translated by a different translator. To Hell and Back is a celebration of the art and craft of poetry translation; of the lexical palettes and syntactical tempos of the English language; and, of course, of the genius of one of the greatest poets of all times.

An anthology of Dante's Inferno in English translation (1782–2017)

To Hell and Back

When a reader picks up a book, the essence of the text has been translated into the visual space of the cover. Using Umberto Eco's bestseller The Name of the Rose as a case study, this is the first study of book cover design as a form of intersemiotic translation based on the purposeful selection of visual signs to represent verbal signs. As an act of translation, the cover of a book ought to be an 'equivalent representation' of the text. But in the absence of any established interpretive criteria, how can equivalence between the visual and the verbal be determined and interpreted? Re-Covered Rose tackles this question in an original and creative way, laying the foundation for a new research trend in Translation Studies. Marco Sonzogni is Senior Lecturer in Italian, School of Languages and Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. A widely published academic and an award-winning editor, poet and literary translator, he is the Director of the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation/Te Tumu Whakawhiti Tuhinga.

A Case Study in Book Cover Design As Intersemiotic Translation

Re-Covered Rose

Marco Sonzogni

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