Recreation and style : translating humorous literature in Italian and English / Brigid Maher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maher, Brigid.

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; v. 90.

Benjamins translation library ; v. 90

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

English language--Humor.

English language.

Italian language--Humor.

Italian language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This volume explores the translation of literary and humorous style, including comedy, irony, satire, parody and the grotesque, from Italian to English and vice versa. The innovative and interdisciplinary theoretical approach places the focus on creativity and playful rewriting as central to the translation of humour. Analysing translations of works by Rosa Cappiello, Dario Fo, Will Self and Anthony Burgess, the author explores literary translation as a form of exchange between translated and receiving cultures. In a final case study she recounts her own strategies in translating the work of Milena Agus, exploring humour, creation and recreation from the perspective of the translator and demonstrating the benefits of critical engagement with both the theory and the practice of translation. This unique contribution to the study of humour and literary style in translation will be of interest to scholars of translation, humour, comparative literature, and literary and cultural studies.

Contents:

Recreation and Style

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

List of figures and tables

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Humorous style and translation

Making sense of humour

The translation of humour

Interdisciplinarity and diversity

The case studies

Creation and recreation

Chapter 2. Outrageous fortune in the lucky country

Displacement and disjunction

Finding a space in English

Exaggerated bodies

Views and reviews

The contextual and paratextual spaces of translation

Chapter 3. Playing for laughs

Setting the scene: The political and cultural context

Voice and characterization

Irony, farcical logic and physical comedy

Translation and adaptation

Accidental Death's afterlife in translation

Chapter 4. Self-styled Wilde behaviour

Imitation and explicitation

Self's parody

Will Self translate? Intertextual and paratextual matters

Artifice and artificiality

Puns in the oven

Understatement and contradiction

Extra intertextuality

Translating transgression

Chapter 5. Apples and (clockwork) oranges

Nadsat all'italiana

Nadsat and the reader's attitude

Funny-peculiar and funny-ha-ha

'Disjunctive poetics' and dramatic irony

Metaphors of violence

Language, poetics and ideology

Chapter 6. First person

Voice and narrative style

Location, location, location

Food, sexuality and taboo

The laughter and tears of migration

Perceptions and reception

Chapter 7. Translation as recreation

References

Author index

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613122018

9781283122016

1283122014

9789027286888

9027286884

OCLC:

733732758