Winners of the BCLA/BCLT 2002 Translation Competition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. CONTRIBUTORS ix
5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiii
6. Frontispiece: Study after Velasquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X, Francis Bacon, 1953 Oil on canvas, 153 × 118,1 cm. DACS London 2003 xiv
7. EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION Dances of life and death: comparative biography xv
8. PART I The lives of the disciplines: comparative biography
9. Comparative biography and the DNB 3
10. Ends of Learning: Tradition and the Problem of Inheritance. WITH EXCERPTS FROM THE LAST BRAHMIN BY R - ANI SHIVASHANKARA SHARMA TRANSLATED FROM THE TELUGU WITH AN INTRODUCTION 27
11. Suicide and biography 57
12. Revising Hegel’s Phenomenology on the left: Luk´acs, Koj`eve, Hyppolite 67
13. Proust and Italian painting 97
14. Visual musical poetry: the feeling of Pallaksch in Bacon, Clean, and Kurtág 123
15. ‘A Relic of an age still capable of a Romantic outlook’: Musical biography and The Master Musicians Series, 1899-1906 161
16. PART II Literature and translations
17. Winners of the BCLA/BCLT 2002 Translation Competition 205
18. Introduction to Against the Grain 207
19. Against the Grain 213
20. Latin poems 229
21. PART III Essay reviews
22. A Mind-body problem. On Cambridge Scientific Minds 249
23. Composing and decomposing the corpus of William Beckford: French and English Beckford 255
24. Books and periodicals received 267