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The translator's doubts : Vladimir Nabokov and the ambiguity of translation / Julia Trubikhina.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kunina, I͡Ulii͡a, author.
- Series:
- Cultural revolutions.
- Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977--Translations.
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich.
- Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977--Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Translations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Massachusetts : Academic Studies Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Using Vladimir Nabokov as its "case study," this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. The book attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in Nabokov studies from its earlier emphasis on the "metaliterary" to the more recent "metaphysical" approach. Addressing specific texts (both literary and cinematic), the book investigates Nabokov's deeply ambivalent relationship to translation as a hermeneutic oscillation on his part between the relative stability of meaning, which expresses itself philosophically as a faith in the beyond, and deep metaphysical uncertainty. While Nabokov's practice of translation changes profoundly over the course of his career, his adherence to the Romantic notion of a "true" but ultimately elusive metaphysical language remained paradoxically constant.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Nabokov's Beginnings: "Ania" in Wonderland or "Does Asparagus Grow in a Pile of Manure?"
- Chapter 2. The Novel on Translation and "über-Translation": Nabokov's Pale Fire and Eugene Onegin
- Chapter 3. "Cinemizing" as Translation: Nabokov's Screenplay of Lolita and Stanley Kubrick's and Adrian Lyne's Cinematic Versions
- Conclusion. Vladimir Nabokov within the Russian and Western Traditions of Translation
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 2, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 9781618117038
- 1618117033
- 9781618112613
- 1618112619
- OCLC:
- 1135589470
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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