Hermeneutics, Retranslation and Paratext: a Case Study of Seamus Heaney’s Preface to His Retranslation of „Beowulf”

This paper sets to analyse the hermeneutical process of highlighting at work in preface written by North Irish poet Seamus Heaney his retranslations Beowulf (1999). My analysis takes into account generic identity considering it as a textual subgenre where translator becomes metatranslator voice herself out invisibility, engages (self-reflexive) and “justification” commenting on choice translated their translation choices. The is carried with help two concepts elaborated Gadamer: situatedness self-understanding show how fuses different horizons retranslation.