In translation : reflections, refractions, transformations / edited by Paul St-Pierre, Prafulla C. Kar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

St-Pierre, Paul.

Kar, P. C. (Prafulla C.)

Series:

Benjamins translation library.

Benjamins translation library, 0929-7316 ; v. 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

With contributions by researchers from India, Europe, North America and the Caribbean, In Translation - Reflections, refractions, transformations touches on questions of method and on topics - including copyright, cultural hybridity, globalization, identity construction, and minority languages - which are important for the disciplinary development of translation studies but also of interest to other fields as well, most notably comparative literature, cultural studies and world literature. The volume provides a forum for new voices to be heard alongside those of well-established scholars and f

Contents:

""In Translation � Reflections, Refractions, Transformations""; ""Editorial page""; ""Title page""; ""LCC data""; ""Table of contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""I. Translation studies in context""; ""Translation and society: The emergence of a conceptual relationship""; ""Language and translation: Contesting conventions""; ""Translation studies, ethnography and the production of knowledge""; ""Trafficking in words: Languages, missionaries and translators""

""Unsafe at any speed? Some unfinished reflections on the �cultural turn� in translation studies""""II. Writing and translation""; ""Translation and displacement: The life and works of Pierre Menard""; ""Mark Twain vs. William-Little Hughes: The transformation of a great American novel""; ""“A single brushstroke�: Writing through translation: Anne Carson""; ""Translation rights and the philosophyof translation: Remembering the debts of the original""; ""Seeds of discontent: Re-creation and the bounds of ownership""; ""III. Contexts of translation""

""Double take: Figuring the other and the politics of translation""""Translation as culture""; ""Translating culture vs. cultural translation""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""The series Benjamins Translation Library""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612154645

9781282154643

1282154648

9789027292520

9027292523

OCLC:

233597321