Agents of translation / edited by John Milton, Paul Bandia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Milton, John, 1956-

Bandia, Paul F. (Paul Fadio), 1961-

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; v. 81.

Benjamins translation library. EST subseries.

Benjamins translation library ; v. 81. EST subseries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

Literature--Translations.

Literature.

Physical Description:

vi, 337 p. : ill., map.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadephia : John Benjamins Pub., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This article is based on a web survey of on-line and print translations into English of poetry by writers from Bosnia since the 1992-1995 war. Combining insights from Actor Network Theory, Activity Theory and Goffman's Social Game Theory, it examines the relationships between human and textual agents in the production of poetry translations. It maps these relationships onto agents' geographic 'positionality'. Among the findings are:(1) Poetry translation is produced by networks of agents working across a 'distributed' space. This implies that it is simplistic to conceptualise literary translation in terms of one agent's loyalty to one cultural space.(2) Translators often carry less power in a production network than an anthology/journal editor or a living source poet.(3) Networks involving players from source-language regions working in a target-language country are particularly effective in publication terms.

Contents:

Agents of Translation

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Introduction: Agents of Translation and Translation Studies

Francisco de Miranda, intercultural forerunner

Translating cultural paradigms The role of the Revue Britannique for the first Brazilian fiction wri

Translation as representation: Fukuzawa Yukichi's representation of the "Others"

Vizetelly &amp

Company as (ex)change agent: Towards the modernization of the British publishing indust

Translation within the margin: The "Libraries" of Henry Bohn

Translating Europe: The case of Ahmed Midhat as an Ottoman agent of translation

A cultural agent against the forces of culture: Hasan-Âli Yücel

Limits of freedom: Agency, choice and constraints in the work of the translator

Cheikh Anta Diop: Translation at the service of history

The agency of the poets and the impact of their translations: Sur, Poesía Buenos Aires, and Diario

The role of Haroldo and Augusto de Campos in bringing translation to the fore of literary activity i

The theatre translator as a cultural agent: A case study

Embassy networks: Translating post-war Bosnian poetry into English

Index

Notes on contributors

The series Benjamins Translation Library.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612104893

9781282104891

1282104896

9789027291073

9027291071

OCLC:

646801381