Karen Wilson-deRoze
List of John Benjamins publications in which Karen Wilson-deRoze is involved.
Articles
2020 Translating Wagner’s Versmelodie : A multimodal challenge Opera in Translation: Unity and diversity, Şerban, Adriana and Kelly Kar Yue Chan (eds.), pp. 243–270 | Chapter
Opera is ‘other’ than the sum of its individual verbal, musical and mimic-scenic parts, and a singable translation of its libretto requires that the translator go beyond copying the original prosody, so that the new words fit the notes, to considering the relationship between musical and poetic… read more
2018 Chapter 4. Have English translations of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, an icon of German culture, been affected by the changing relationship between Germany and Britain in the twentieth century? Key Cultural Texts in Translation, Malmkjær, Kirsten, Adriana Şerban and Fransiska Louwagie (eds.), pp. 53–77 | Chapter
To some, the message of The Ring of the Nibelung is that love and sacrifice can redeem the world; for others, like G.B. Shaw1, it is a capitalist drama. For many, the Ring is quintessentially German, for others, its mythic themes are universal. Its Germanness is examined in this article in terms of… read more