Literary Translation And The Making Of Originals

Author : Karen Emmerich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1501329944

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Literary Translation and the Making of Originals by Karen Emmerich Pdf

"Literary Translation and the Making of Originals engages such issues as the politics and ethics of translation; how aesthetic categories and market forces contribute to the establishment and promotion of particular "originals"; and the role translation plays in the formation, re-formation, and deformation of national and international literary canons. By challenging the assumption that stable originals even exist, Karen Emmerich also calls into question the tropes of ideal equivalence and unavoidable loss that contribute to the low status of translation, translations, and translators in the current literary and academic marketplaces."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Karen Emmerich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501329920

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Literary Translation and the Making of Originals by Karen Emmerich Pdf

Literary Translation and the Making of Originals engages such issues as the politics and ethics of translation; how aesthetic categories and market forces contribute to the establishment and promotion of particular "originals†?; and the role translation plays in the formation, re-formation, and deformation of national and international literary canons. By challenging the assumption that stable originals even exist, Karen Emmerich also calls into question the tropes of ideal equivalence and unavoidable loss that contribute to the low status of translation, translations, and translators in the current literary and academic marketplaces.

Author : Karen Emmerich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 041574329X

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Translation and the Making of Originals by Karen Emmerich Pdf

Author : Roy Youdale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429638497

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Using Computers in the Translation of Literary Style by Roy Youdale Pdf

This volume argues for an innovative interdisciplinary approach to the analysis and translation of literary style, based on a mutually supportive combination of traditional close reading and ‘distant’ reading, involving corpus-linguistic analysis and text-visualisation. The book contextualizes this approach within the broader story of the development of computer-assisted translation -- including machine translation and the use of CAT tools -- and elucidates the ways in which the approach can lead to better informed translations than those based on close reading alone. This study represents the first systematic attempt to use corpus linguistics and text-visualisation in the process of translating individual literary texts, as opposed to comparing and analysing already published originals and their translations. Using the case study of his translation into English of Uruguayan author Mario Benedetti’s 1965 novel Gracías por el Fuego, Youdale showcases how a close and distant reading approach (CDR) enhances the translator’s ability to detect and measure a variety of stylistic features, ranging from sentence length and structure to lexical richness and repetition, both in the source text and in their own draft translation, thus assisting them with the task of revision. The book reflects on the benefits and limitations of a CDR approach, its scalability and broader applicability in translation studies and related disciplines, making this key reading for translators, postgraduate students and scholars in the fields of literary translation, corpus linguistics, corpus stylistics and narratology.

Author : Magda Heydel,Zofia Ziemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000415261

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Retracing the History of Literary Translation in Poland by Magda Heydel,Zofia Ziemann Pdf

This book, the first of its kind for an English-language audience, introduces a fresh perspective on the Polish literary translation landscape, providing unique insights into the social, political, and ideological underpinnings of Polish translation history. Employing a problem-based approach, the book creates a map of different research directions in the history of literary translation in Poland, highlighting a holistic perspective on the discipline’s development in the region. The four sections explore topics of particular interest in current translation research, including translation and cultural borderlands, the agency of women translators, translators as intercultural mediators, and the intersection of translation research and digital methods. The 15 contributions demonstrate the ways in which Polish culture has represented translated work in its own way, informed and shaped by socio-political changes in Polish history. At the same time, the volume situates Polish research in translation within the growing body of work on Central and Eastern European translation studies, as well as looking at them against the backdrop of the international development of the discipline. This collection offers a valuable addition to existing research on Western literary canons, making it key reading for scholars in translation studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, and Slavonic studies.

Author : Peter France,Kenneth Haynes
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199246236

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The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: by Peter France,Kenneth Haynes Pdf

Translation has played a vital part in the history of literature throughout the English-speaking world. Offering for the first time a comprehensive view of this phenomenon, this pioneering five-volume work casts a vivid new light on the history of English literature. Incorporating critical discussion of translations, it explores the changing nature and function of translation and the social and intellectual milieu of the translators.

Author : Haun Saussy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192540638

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Translation as Citation by Haun Saussy Pdf

This volume examines translation from many different angles: it explores how translations change the languages in which they occur, how works introduced from other languages become part of the consciousness of native speakers, and what strategies translators must use to secure acceptance for foreign works. Haun Saussy argues that translation doesn't amount to the composition, in one language, of statements equivalent to statements previously made in another language. Rather, translation works with elements of the language and culture in which it arrives, often reconfiguring them irreversibly: it creates, with a fine disregard for precedent, loan-words, calques, forced metaphors, forged pasts, imaginary relationships, and dialogues of the dead. Creativity, in this form of writing, usually considered merely reproductive, is the subject of this book. The volume takes the history of translation in China, from around 150 CE to the modern period, as its source of case studies. When the first proponents of Buddhism arrived in China, creativity was forced upon them: a vocabulary adequate to their purpose had yet to be invented. A Chinese Buddhist textual corpus took shape over centuries despite the near-absence of bilingual speakers. One basis of this translating activity was the rewriting of existing Chinese philosophical texts, and especially the most exorbitant of all these, the collection of dialogues, fables, and paradoxes known as the Zhuangzi. The Zhuangzi also furnished a linguistic basis for Chinese Christianity when the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci arrived in the later part of the Ming dynasty and allowed his friends and associates to frame his teachings in the language of early Daoism. It would function as well when Xu Zhimo translated from The Flowers of Evil in the 1920s. The chance but overdetermined encounter of Zhuangzi and Baudelaire yielded a 'strange music' that retroactively echoes through two millennia of Chinese translation, outlining a new understanding of the translator's craft that cuts across the dividing lines of current theories and critiques of translation.

Author : Xu Jun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000084726

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Dialogues on the Theory and Practice of Literary Translation by Xu Jun Pdf

The book is a collection of the dialogues between Xu Jun, a well-known expert in French literary translation and eminent “Changjiang” scholar in translation studies in China, and some celebrated literary translators in contemporary China, some of whom are also literary scholars, linguists, poets, prose writers, and editors. It is a fundamental achievement of research on the literary translation in the 20th century in China, involving multiple literary types, such as novels, poetry, dramas, prose, and fairy tales; and multiple languages, such as English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and Sanskrit. The dialogues are centered on fundamental issues in the theory and practice of literary translation, such as re-creation in literary translation, the relationship between form and content in literary translation, the subjectivity of literary translators, literary translation standards and principles, the gains and losses in literary translation, the principles and methods of literary criticism, and so on. Those translation experts’ experience and multiple strategies not only play an active role in guiding literary translators in practice but also benefit theoretical development in literary translation. Thus, the book will contribute to worldwide translation studies and get well recognized by translation studies students, teachers, and scholars in the world.

Author : Vassilis Vassilikos
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609802127

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The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis by Vassilis Vassilikos Pdf

A brilliant work of the imagination as well as a meditation on writing itself, the story follows a biographer’s investigation into the life and works of a famous, yet highly mysterious, deceased Greek author named Glafkos Thrassakis. At the crossroads where magical realism and political fiction meet, Vassilis Vassilikos’s buoyant literary imagination flourishes beyond the confines of conventional narrative structures.

Author : Lawrence Venuti
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781496215925

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Contra Instrumentalism by Lawrence Venuti Pdf

Contra Instrumentalism questions the long-accepted notion that translation reproduces or transfers an invariant contained in or caused by the source text. This "instrumental" model of translation has dominated translation theory and commentary for more than two millennia, and its influence can be seen today in elite and popular cultures, in academic institutions and in publishing, in scholarly monographs and in literary journalism, in the most rarefied theoretical discourses and in the most commonly used clichés. Contra Instrumentalism aims to end the dominance of instrumentalism by showing how it grossly oversimplifies translation practice and fosters an illusion of immediate access to source texts. Lawrence Venuti asserts that all translation is an interpretive act that necessarily entails ethical responsibilities and political commitments. Venuti argues that a hermeneutic model offers a more comprehensive and incisive understanding of translation that enables an appreciation of not only the creative and scholarly aspects of what a translator does but also the crucial role translation plays in the cultural and social institutions that shape human life.

Author : Jean Boase-Beier,Michael Holman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134935437

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The Practices of Literary Translation by Jean Boase-Beier,Michael Holman Pdf

In their introduction to this collection of essays, the editors argue that constraints can be seen as a source of literary creativity, and given that translation is even more constrained than 'original' literary production, it thus has the potential to be even more creative too. The ten essays that follow outline ways in which translators and translations are constrained by poetic form, personal histories, state control, public morality, and the non-availability of comparable target language subcodes, and how translator creativity may-or may not-overcome these constraints. Topics covered are: Baudelaire's translation practices; bowdlerism in translations of Voltaire, Boccaccio and Shakespeare, among others; Leyris's translations of Gerard Manley Hopkins; ideology in English-Arabic translation; the translation of censored Greek poet Rhea Galanaki; theatre translation; Nabokov and translation; gay translation; Moratín's translation of Hamlet; and state control of translation production in Nazi Germany. The essays are mostly highly readable, and often entertaining.

Author : Kate Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 1910695459

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This Little Art by Kate Briggs Pdf

Part-essay and part-memoir, 'This Little Art' is a manifesto for the practice of literary translation.

Author : Piotr Kuhiwczak,Karin Littau
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847695420

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A Companion to Translation Studies by Piotr Kuhiwczak,Karin Littau Pdf

A Companion to Translation Studies is the first work of its kind. It provides an authoritative guide to key approaches in translation studies. All of the essays are specially commissioned for this collection, and written by leading international experts in the field. The book is divided into nine specialist areas: culture, philosophy, linguistics, history, literary, gender, theatre and opera, screen, and politics. Contributors include Susan Bassnett, Gunilla Anderman and Christina Schäffner. Each chapter gives an in-depth account of theoretical concepts, issues and debates which define a field within translation studies, mapping out past trends and suggesting how research might develop in the future. In their general introduction the editors illustrate how translation studies has developed as a broad interdisciplinary field. Accompanied by an extensive bibliography, this book provides an ideal entry point for students and scholars exploring the multifaceted and fast-developing discipline of translation studies.

Author : Maya Kesrouany
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474407427

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Prophetic Translation by Maya Kesrouany Pdf

Collection of newly-commissioned essays tracing cutting-edge developments in children's literature research

Author : Clifford E. Landers
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847695604

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Literary Translation by Clifford E. Landers Pdf

In this book, both beginning and experienced translators will find pragmatic techniques for dealing with problems of literary translation, whatever the original language. Certain challenges and certain themes recur in translation, whatever the language pair. This guide proposes to help the translator navigate through them. Written in a witty and easy to read style, the book’s hands-on approach will make it accessible to translators of any background. A significant portion of this Practical Guide is devoted to the question of how to go about finding an outlet for one’s translations.