Literary Translation : Redrawing the Boundaries / edited by J. Boase-Beier, A. Fawcett, P. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boase-Beier, Jean, Editor.

Fawcett, A., Editor.

Wilson, P., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature.

Comparative Literature.

Local Subjects:

Comparative Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Literary Translation: Redrawing the Boundaries is a collection of articles that gathers together current work in literary translation to show how research in the field can speak to other disciplines such as cultural studies, history, linguistics, literary studies and philosophy, whilst simultaneously learning from them.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; 1 Why Literary Translation is a Good Model for Translation Theory and Practice; 2 Dialogic Spaces and Literary Resonances in the French Translation of A. S. Byatt's Autobiographical Story 'Sugar'; 3 Cloud Talk: Reading the Shapes in Poetry and What Becomes of Them; 4 The Conservative Era: a Case Study of Historical Comparisons of Translations of Children's Literature from English to Swedish; 5 Translation in Sixteenth-Century English Manuals for the Teaching of Foreign Languages

6 Iconic Motivation in Translation: Where Non-Fiction Meets Poetry?7 A Narrative Theory Perspective on the Turkish Translation of The Bastard of Istanbul; 8 Fabre d'Olivet's Le Troubadour and the Textuality of Pseudotranslation; 9 What Does Literary Translation Bring to an Understanding of Postcolonial Cultural Perceptions? On the Polish Translation of Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard; 10 Translating the Narrator; 11 On the Work of Philosopher-Translators; 12 Translation and Holocaust Testimonies: a Matter for Holocaust Studies or Translation Studies?

13 The Important Role of Translation in the 1789 Brazilian Minas Conspiracy14 Using Translation to Read Literature; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781349456505

1349456500

9781137310057

1137310057