Studies in the Translations of Juan Ramón and Zenobia Jiménez

Charlotte Ward

Studies in the Translations
of Juan Ramón and Zenobia Jiménez

PETER LANG

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Ward, Charlotte, author.

Title: Studies in the translations of Juan Ramón and Zenobia Jiménez /

Charlotte Ward.

Description: New York: Peter Lang, 2017.

Series: Currents in comparative Romance languages and

literatures; vol. 249 | ISSN 0893-5963

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016031293 | ISBN 978-1-4331-3491-3 (hardcover: alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-4539-1919-4 (ebook pdf) | ISBN 978-1-4331-3799-0 (epub)

ISBN 978-1-4331-3800-3 (mobi) | DOI: 10.3726/978-1-4539-1919-4

Subjects: LCSH: Jiménez, Juan Ramón, 1881–1958—Criticism and interpretation.

Camprubí, Zenobia, 1887–1956—Criticism and interpretation.

English literature—Translations into Spanish—History and criticism.

Translating and interpretating—Spain—History—20th century.

Classification: LCC PQ6619.I4 .Z9475 | DDC 861/.62—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016031293

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About the author

Charlotte Ward is a professor at the University of Puerto Rico. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in English and comparative literature of the medieval period. Her publications include Ezra Pound, Forked Branches: Translations of Medieval Poems (1985), Pound’s Translations of Arnaut Daniel (1991), as well as many articles. Grants from Swiss Universities, Phi Beta Kappa, Rotary International, Wellesley College Workman, Newnham College Cambridge, Sir John Williams University of Wales, the Radcliffe Institute, the Medieval Academy of America, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Andrew W. Mellon have supported her research.

About the book

The translations by Juan Ramón Jiménez, first resident of the Caribbean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have been neglected, likely because many of them were published under the name of his wife, Zenobia Camprubí Aymar, along with many of his poems. Close analysis of the style, along with personal letters and diaries, reveals his significant participation in these works. The translations were a crucial source of psychological and financial support during the long exile from Spain after the Civil War. Other elements in the process were the Nobel-winners Rabindranath Tagore, William Butler Yeats, and André Gide. Intertextual incorporations from Shakespeare, the King James Bible, Rubén Darío, and Ezra Pound are noteworthy, as Juan Ramón and Zenobia maneuvered between the Symbolist and Imagist poetic movements, experimenting with different theories of translation, from Dryden to Jakobson. As Jiménez constantly revised his own work, hitherto unpublished annotations prove important to understanding this journey.

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Contents

Author’s Note

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One

Juan Ramón before Zenobia: Translation and Imitation of French Symbolist Literature