Translation practices : through language to culture / edited by Ashley Chantler and Carla Dente.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chantler, Ashley.

Dente, Carla.

Series:

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 122.

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 122

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

Language and culture.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This cutting-edge collection, born of a belief in the value of approaching ‘translation’ in a wide range of ways, contains essays of interest to students and scholars of translation, literary and textual studies. It provides insights into the relations between translation and comparative literature, contrastive linguistics, cultural studies, painting and other media. Subjects and authors discussed include: the translator as ‘go-between’; the textual editor as translator; Ghirri’s photography and Celati’s fiction; the European lending library; La Bible d’Amiens ; the coining of Italian phraseological units; Michèle Roberts’s Impossible Saints ; the impact of modern translations for stage on perceptions of ancient Greek drama; and the translation of slang, intensifiers, characterisation, desire, the self, and America in 1990's Italian fiction. The collection closes with David Platzer’s discussion of translating Dacia Maraini’s poetry into English and with his new translations of ‘Ho Sognato una Stazione’ (‘I Dreamed of a Station’) and ‘Le Tue Bugie’ (‘Your Lies’).

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Editors’ Preface / Ashley Chantler and Carla Dente

Introduction / Manfred Pfister

The European Lending Library: Borrowing, Translating, and Returning Texts / Lynne Long

Translating Intensifiers: (Non-)Equivalences Across English and Italian / Silvia Cacchiani

The Coining of Italian Phraseological Units Through the Translation of Analogous English Phrases / Stephen Coffey

Difficulty of Slang Translation / Elisa Mattiello

Translating Humour: The Case of Stefano Benni / Monica Boria

Translating Characterization: Dario Fo’s Morte accidentale Travels to Britain / Sonia Cunico

Translating ‘America’ in 90's Italian Fiction / Kate Litherland

La Bible d’Amiens: Translation and Transformation / Emily Eells

Translating Desire: Ovid and Three Romantic Poets / Philip Shaw

‘She Rises Anew in my Words’: Translating Sainthood in Michèle Roberts’s Impossible Saints / Luanda Stannard

Playing Around Cultural Faultlines: The Impact of Modern Translations for the Stage on Perceptions of Ancient Greek Drama / Lorna Hardwick

John/Giovanni Florio: The Translator as Go-Between / Manfred Pfister

‘Paring His Fingernails’? The Textual Editor as Translator / Ashley Chantler

Translating the Self: The Alias, Alas! / Dave Postles

The New Italian Landscape: Between Ghirri’s Photography and Celati’s Fiction / Marina Spunta

Translating Dacia; Two Poems / David Platzer

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-59419-2

9786612594199

90-420-2904-8

1-4416-0655-6

OCLC:

667100700