Foreword David Duff, Queen Mary University of London, UK Introduction Carole Birkan-Berz, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France Part One: Revisiting early modern circulations 1. Poetic furor in translation: Spenser's and Sylvester's sonnet collections Padraic Lamb, University of Lyon, France 2. The fashioning of English anti-Petrarchism: Spenser and Shakespeare remembering Du Bellay Line Cottegnies, Université Sorbonne, France 3. ‘Translated out of Ronsard'?: A misattributed translation of Petrarch’s RVF 48 by Sir John Borough Guillaume Coatalen, CY Cergy Paris University, France 4. Paving the way for Opitz: The first German sonnets at the crossroads of European circulation networks, 1556-1604 Elisabeth Rothmund, Université Sorbonne, France Part Two: Sonnet translation as a space for poetic imagination 5. Keats’s sonnets and the translation process: Mediation, conversion and response Oriane Monthéard, University of Rouen, France 6. On translating Les Chimères by Gérard de Nerval Peter Valente, Independent Scholar 7. Reshaping Rilke: A comparative approach to the latest translations of Die Sonette an Orpheus into English Frédéric Weinmann, Independent Scholar 8. Fernando Pessoa's sonnets - dislocations in form, persona and language Carlos A. Pitella, Centre for Theatre Studies of the University of Lisbon, Portugal 9. English sonnet spaces in Jacques Roubaud's Churchill 40 Thea Petrou, Independent Scholar 10. Lyrical gestures: The essence of the form and the spirit of the translated text in Don Paterson’s ‘versions’ of sonnets Bastien Goursaud, UPEC Université Paris Est Créteil, France Part Three: Sonnet migrations across and outside Europe: Translating as a political act 11. Translation and transnationalism: Reframing the contemporary Irish sonnet Erin Cunningham, Independent Scholar 12. Sonnet translation and imitation during the Second World War: Maintaining the idea of Europe? Thomas Vuong, Independent Scholar 13.Translating Genrikh Sapgir’s Sonnets on Shirts Dmitri Manin, Independent Scholar 14. The vulgar eloquence of Singaporean sonnets Tse Hao Guang, Independent Scholar Part Four: Cross-media adaptations and beyond 15. On the theatricality of the Canzoniere, from medieval to modern times Jean-Luc Nardone, Toulouse Jean Jaurès University, France 16. Raymond Queneau’s Cent mille milliards de poèmes: An attempt to exhaust the sonnet Natalie Berkman, SAE Institute, Paris, France 17. The Four Seasons in flux: Translating the sonnets from Vivaldi's score in relation to performances by Nigel Kennedy Paul Munden, University of Leeds, UK, and University of Canberra, Australia, and Anouska Zummo, Independent Scholar 18. Debating sonnet translation in the Soviet and post-Soviet era: Rethinking and transforming the Russian sonnet Alexander Markov, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia Bibliography Index

This volume defies the legendary sense of formal closure associated with the sonnet to show how that form has thrived in translation, and how sonnets have occasioned transformations and reinventions in other media. Contributors range from theorists of translation and poetics to poets and practicing translators, giving the book a commanding breadth and facilitating lively conversations across the chapters.

Literatures, Cultures, Translation presents books that engage central issues in translation studies, such as history, politics, and gender in and of literary translation, as well as books that open new avenues for study. Volumes in the series follow two main strands of inquiry: One strand brings a wider context to translation through an interdisciplinary interrogation of, for example, translation and the environment, translation and pop culture, translation and e-technology, translation and psychology, or translation and neuroscience. The other strand hones in on the history and politics of the translation of seminal works in literary and intellectual history. These books are written for students and scholars of translation studies, both those who are studying practical aspects such as interpreting and translation as well as those who are engaging with theory, history, reception studies, and the cultural implications of translation.