Translation in anthologies and collections (19th and 20th Centuries) / edited by Teresa Seruya ...[et. al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seruya, Teresa, 1950-

Series:

Benjamins translation library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

Literature--Translations.

Literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 287 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A comparison of translation anthologies published in Portugal and Hungary when both countries lived under differing forms of dictatorial rule reveals not only different attitudes towards British literary works, but also towards literature in general. The different role ascribed to literature in Estado Novo Portugal and Socialist Hungary is also well evidenced by their dissimilar approach towards the publishing industry. The total control over book publishing and distribution in Hungary appears to show that literature played a more significant role in the Hungarian propaganda machine than in Portugal. The dominance of crime fiction anthologies in the Portuguese book market, for example, may probably be explained by the fact that, due to the lack of adequate government funding, private publishing houses were obliged to rely mostly on profitable bestsellers. Conversely, the idealistic belief in the educational power of politically reliable classics in establishing Socialism might have had the effect of depriving Hungarian readers of light and entertaining literature, but also of providing them with thousands of remarkably low-priced high-quality books and anthologies. In fact, one of the main tenets behind the Hungarian cultural politics of this period was to re-educate society with the help of the "ideologically progressive" literary heritage of tried-and-true classic authors such as Shakespeare, Shelley, Dickens, or Hardy, while in Portugal, political control was principally based on a policy of keeping the population in relative ignorance with regard to social and cultural alternatives.

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION: Translation anthologies and collections An overview and some prospects

Anthologies, collections and the post-modern condition

Defining an anthological class

Functions, purposes and types

selection and recontextualization

Dynamism and relationality

Future perspectives

References

SECTION I Discursive practices and scholarly agency

Forms and functions of anthologies of translations into French in the nineteenth century

Introduction

The anthology: a genre?

The anthology in the nineteenth century

An inventory of the anthologies and collections of translations in the French language (1810-1840)

Conclusions

The short story in English meets the Portuguese reader: On the 'external history' of Portuguese anthologies of short stories translated from English

External history of translation

Volume categories: Anthologies and collections

Date of publication

On paratexts

Further research

Cancioneiro Chinez The first Portuguese anthology of classical Chinese poetry

Source context

Metatextual information

Macro-level data

Translation impact factor

Concluding remarks

Academic navel gazing? Playing the game up front? Pages from the notebook of a translation anthologist

Academic navel gazing?

Playing the game up front?

More on the personal, the experiential, the introspective

A postcolonial imperative

What am I trying to do with the anthology project?

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Las antologías sobre la traducción en la Península Ibérica Revisión crítica

Introducción

Las antologías sobre la traducción: un fenómeno de moda

Las antologías sobre la traducción: revisión crítica

Conclusiones.

Referencias bibliográficas

SECTION II National and international canonization processes

Poetry anthologies as Weltliteratur projects

Purpose

Translation as the backbone of a

project

Anthologies - Design and theoretical implications

Four anthologies of world poetry - Analysis

Publishing translated literature in late 19th century Portugal: The case of David Corazzi's catalogue (1906)

The Portuguese context of book production in the late 19th century

An emblematic publisher: David Corazzi

The Corazzi Catalogue as a collection - origin and description

Short stories from foreign literatures in Portugália's series Antologias Universais

Portugália's short stories series project in the 1940s and 1950s

The role of translations and prefaces in

A fragmentary debate about the definition of short story throughout the series

Final remarks

Patterns in the external history of Portuguese collections with translations of Polish literature (1855-2009): An exploratory case study

Corpus

Methodology for analysing collections

Results

Conclusions and outlook

Extra-European literatures in anthology during the Estado Novo (1933-1974)

Introduction: Colonization and national identity

Presenting and commenting upon the

Literary anthologies from India

Portuguese anthologies of Chinese short stories

Short stories from Japan

SECTION III Selection and censorship

Children's literature in translation: Treachery and double crossings? Or: You can't judge a book by its cover

Crossing borders

Verbo's

Translation issues

Final comments

Appendix

References.

Translating German poetry into French under the Occupation: The example of R. Lasne's and G. Rabuse's anthology (1943)

The circumstances surrounding publication

Programmatic paratexts: The editors' foreword and K. Epting's preface

Reception(s)

The reception of science fiction and horror story anthologies in the last years of Francoist Spain: Censoring aliens and monsters in translation

Francoist censorship in the seventies: A system slowly falling into decline

Science fiction and horror story anthologies during the seventies

Science fiction anthologies and censorship

Horror story anthologies and censorship

Censored discourse in anthologies and collections of the Far West

Methods

Microtextual analysis

Philosophical collections, translation and censorship: The role of collections in the reception of modern philosophy in 19th and 20th century Spain*

Situation in the early 19th century

First collections

Late 19th century collections

New collections in the early 20th century

Translation anthologies and British literature in Portugal and Hungary between 1949 and 1974

Reference and bibliographic resources

Criteria for exclusion and inclusion

The Portuguese and Hungarian reception of translated British literature

References15

Notes on contributors and editors

Name index

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027271433

9027271437

OCLC:

855505399