The interactive cognateness of translation and modernist poetry is clarified through this book on the purported untranslatability of the poems by the avant-gardists, in particular, Stéphane Mallarmé and T. S. Eliot. These inspiring texts direct the reader to re-create the world with their multidimensional growth of meanings.

Noriko Takeda is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Hiroshima University. She received her PhD in comparative literature from the University of Toronto. Her publications include (Lang, 2000) and Hérodiade, (Lang, 2008).

Contents: Translation as Re-Creative Acquisition: The Concurrence with Modernist Poetry in Interpretive Self-Reproduction – Form or Meaning: Stéphane Mallarmé's Quest for Oneness through Poetic Totalization – Revising a Civilization: T.S. Eliot's Secretive Ambition as Poems 1919/1920 – Poetic as Encyclopedic: The Prose Poetry in Reunifying Enlightenment – What the Thrush Said: The Re-Creative Secondness as a Synthetic Thirdness – Salvation as Translation.