Collaborative translation : from the Renaissance to the digital age / edited by Anthony Cordingley and Céline Frigau Manning.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cordingley, Anthony, editor.

Frigau Manning, Céline, editor.

Series:

Bloomsbury advances in translation.

Bloomsbury advances in translation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--History.

Translating and interpreting.

Translators.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages).

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Summary:

"For centuries, the art of translation has been misconstrued as a solitary affair. Yet, from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, groups of translators comprised of specialists of different languages formed in order to transport texts from one language and culture to another. Collaborative Translation uncovers the collaborative practices occluded in Renaissance theorizing of translation to which our individualist notions of translation are indebted. Leading translation scholars as well as professional translators have been invited here to detail their experiences of collaborative translation, as well as the fruits of their research into this neglected form of translation. This volume offers in-depth analysis of rich, sometimes explosive, relationships between authors and their translators. Their negotiations of cooperation and control, assistance and interference, are shown here to shape the translation of prominent modern authors such as Günter Grass, Vladimir Nabokov and Haruki Murakami. The advent of printing, the cultural institutions and the legal and political environment that regulate the production of translated texts have each formalized many of the inherently social and communicative practices of translation. Yet this publishing regime has been profoundly disrupted by the technologies that are currently revolutionizing collaborative translation techniques. This volume details the impact that this technological and environmental evolution is having upon the translator, proliferating sites and communities of collaboration, transforming traditional relationships with authors and editors, revisers, stage directors, actors and readers."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

pt. 1. Reconceptualizing the translator : Renaissance and Enlightenment perspectives

pt. 2. Collaborating with the author

pt. 3. Environments of collaboration.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350075290

1350075299

9781350006034

1350006033

9781350006041

1350006041

OCLC:

1057789468