Russian Hexameter in Contemporary Translations from Greek and Latin

Vladimir Fayer ()
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Abstract: The article deals with Russian translations of ancient epic texts that were made in the last few decades. The type of accentual verse that is frequently (but not universally) considered equirhythmic to Greek and Latin hexameter is called Russian hexameter. The first part of the article gives a brief outline of the metrical history of this verse. The second part classifies the trends in contemporary hexametric translations based on the statistics of dactylization. Some experimental forms of Russian hexameter, which have recently been the point of debate, are discussed in the final part of the present work.

Keywords: metrics; hexameter; Russian literature; translation studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2015
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Published in WP BRP Series: Humanities / HUM, April 2015, pages-12

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