Frae Ither Tongues

Essays on Modern Translations into Scots

Edited by Dr. Bill Findlay

Publication date:

16 March 2004

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9781853597008

Not only has the period of the past seventy years been the richest for literary translation into Scots since the sixteenth century, but it can claim to be the richest in terms of the quantity of work and the range of languages and genres translated. This collection of essays, by translators and critics, represents the first extended analysis of the nature and practice of modern translation into Scots.

Bill Findlay: Editor’s Introduction
Part 1: Translators on Translating
1 Brian Holton: Wale a Leid an Wale a Warld: Shuihu Zhuan into Scots
2 William Neill: Translating Homer’s Odyssey
3 Stuart Hood: Dario Fo’s Mistero Buffo into Scots
4 Martin Bowman and Bill Findlay: Translating Register in Michel Tremblay’s Québécois Drama
Part 2: Studies of Translations
5 Noël Peacock: Robert Kemp’s Translations of Molière
6 Randall Stevenson: Triumphant Tartuffification: Liz Lochhead’s Translation of Molière’s Tartuffe
7 David Kinloch: Edwin Morgan’s Cyrano de Bergerac
8 Stephen Mulrine: Mayakovsky and Morgan
9 Graham Tulloch: Robert Garioch’s Translations of George Buchanan’s Latin Tragedies
10 Christopher Whyte: Robert Garioch and Giuseppe Belli
11 J. Derrick McClure: The Puddocks and The Burdies ‘by Aristophanes and Douglas Young’
12 Peter Graves and Bjarne Thorup Thomsen: Translation and Transplantation: Sir Alexander Gray’s Danish Ballads
References
Contributors
Index

We should welcome Bill Findlay's collection as a timely celebration of the great achievement of Scots-language translators in the 20th century. It combines hands-on accounts by translators and acute readings of some of the most important texts to show how these translations have enriched and extended Scottish culture with booty from as far afield as modern Quebec or ancient China.