The Art Of Literary Translation

Author : Robert Wechsler
Publisher : Catbird Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0945774389

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Performing Without a Stage by Robert Wechsler Pdf

Performing Without a Stage is a lively and comprehensive introduction to the art of literary translation for readers of foreign fiction and poetry who wonder what it takes to translate, how the art of literary translation has changed over the centuries, what problems translators face in bringing foreign works into English and how they go about solving these problems. This book will also be of interest to translators, writers, editors, critics, and literature students, dealing as it does, often controversially, with such matters as the translator's fidelity to the author, the publishing and reviewing of translations, the nearly nonexistent public image of the stageless translator, and the value for writers and scholars of studying and practicing translation.

Author : Jirí Levý,Ji?í Levý
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027224453

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The Art of Translation by Jirí Levý,Ji?í Levý Pdf

Jirí Levý's seminal work, The Art of Translation, considered a timeless classic in Translation Studies, is now available in English. Having drawn on adjacent disciplines, the methodology of Czech functional sociosemiotic structuralism and the state-of-the art in the West, Levý synthesized his findings and experience in the field presenting them in a reader-friendly book, which combines the approaches of a theoretician, systemic analyst, historian, critic, teacher, practitioner and populariser. Although focused on literary translation from theoretical, descriptive and historical perspectives, it presents a conceptualization of a general theory, addressing a number of issues discussed today. The 'practical' mission of the book as a theory extending to practice is based on the same historical-dialectic affinity of methods, norms, functions and values, accounting for the translator's agency and other contextual agents involved in the communication process. The book will be useful to translators, researchers, students and teachers in Translation and Literary Studies.

Author : Mark Polizzotti
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262537025

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Sympathy for the Traitor by Mark Polizzotti Pdf

An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't. For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty—summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment. In this nuanced and provocative study, Mark Polizzotti attempts to reframe the debate along more fruitful lines. Eschewing both these easy polarities and the increasingly abstract discourse of translation theory, he brings the main questions into clearer focus: What is the ultimate goal of a translation? What does it mean to label a rendering “faithful”? (Faithful to what?) Is something inevitably lost in translation, and can something also be gained? Does translation matter, and if so, why? Unashamedly opinionated, both a manual and a manifesto, his book invites usto sympathize with the translator not as a “traitor” but as the author's creative partner. Polizzotti, himself a translator of authors from Patrick Modiano to Gustave Flaubert, explores what translation is and what it isn't, and how it does or doesn't work. Translation, he writes, “skirts the boundaries between art and craft, originality and replication, altruism and commerce, genius and hack work.” In Sympathy for the Traitor, he shows us how to read not only translations but also the act of translation itself, treating it not as a problem to be solved but as an achievement to be celebrated—something, as Goethe put it, “impossible, necessary, and important.”

Author : Burton Raffel
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271039053

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Art of Translating Prose by Burton Raffel Pdf

Author : Minae Mizumura
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231538541

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The Fall of Language in the Age of English by Minae Mizumura Pdf

Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding offered by multiple tongues. She warns against losing this precious diversity. Universal languages have always played a pivotal role in advancing human societies, Mizumura shows, but in the globalized world of the Internet, English is fast becoming the sole common language of humanity. The process is unstoppable, and striving for total language equality is delusional—and yet, particular kinds of knowledge can be gained only through writings in specific languages. Mizumura calls these writings "texts" and their ultimate form "literature." Only through literature and, more fundamentally, through the diverse languages that give birth to a variety of literatures, can we nurture and enrich humanity. Incorporating her own experiences as a writer and a lover of language and embedding a parallel history of Japanese, Mizumura offers an intimate look at the phenomena of individual and national expression.

Author : Hans Schulte,Gerhart Teuscher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015032474580

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The Art of Literary Translation by Hans Schulte,Gerhart Teuscher Pdf

Considerably revised from their presentations to a symposium at McMaster University, Canada (no date noted), 14 essays (two in German) explore theoretical issues of translating literature, focusing on translating into or out of German. They consider principles, production, and reception; and include such topics as teaching translation, modern German literature in English, satire, and the Viennese cabaret. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Kate Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Clive Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108426824

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The Work of Literary Translation by Clive Scott Pdf

Explores a literary translation dedicated more to the reader's perception and experience of text than to textual interpretation.

Author : Yoko Tawada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811225793

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Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada Pdf

The Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers—who happen to be polar bears The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as “Yoko Tawada’s magnificent strangeness”—Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears who move in human society, stars of the ring and of the literary world. In chapter one, the grandmother matriarch in the Soviet Union accidentally writes a bestselling autobiography. In chapter two, Tosca, her daughter (born in Canada, where her mother had emigrated) moves to the DDR and takes a job in the circus. Her son—the last of their line—is Knut, born in chapter three in a Leipzig zoo but raised by a human keeper in relatively happy circumstances in the Berlin zoo, until his keeper, Matthias, is taken away... Happy or sad, each bear writes a story, enjoying both celebrity and “the intimacy of being alone with my pen.”

Author : David Homel,Sherry Simon
Publisher : Vehicule Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015058207427

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Mapping Literature by David Homel,Sherry Simon Pdf

This book features essays and discussions from writers, translators, and individuals who play both roles at once, from around the world. It evolved from an international conference sponsored by Canada's Literary Translators' Association which took place in Montreal in 1986.

Author : Kelly Washbourne,Ben Van Wyke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315517117

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The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation by Kelly Washbourne,Ben Van Wyke Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation provides an accessible, diverse and extensive overview of literary translation today. This next-generation volume brings together principles, case studies, precepts, histories and process knowledge from practitioners in sixteen different countries. Divided into four parts, the book covers many of literary translation’s most pressing concerns today, from teaching, to theorising, to translation techniques, to new tools and resources. Featuring genre studies, in which graphic novels, crime fiction, and ethnopoetry have pride of place alongside classics and sacred texts, The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation represents a vital resource for students and researchers of both translation studies and comparative literature.

Author : POLLY. BARTON
Publisher : Fitzcarraldo Editions
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1913097501

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Fifty Sounds by POLLY. BARTON Pdf

Author : Clifford E. Landers
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 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.

Author : Edith Grossman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300163032

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Why Translation Matters by Edith Grossman Pdf

"Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator's role. As the acclaimed translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, "My intention is to stimulate a new consideration of an area of literature that is too often ignored, misunderstood, or misrepresented." For Grossman, translation has a transcendent importance: "Translation not only plays its important traditional role as the means that allows us access to literature originally written in one of the countless languages we cannot read, but it also represents a concrete literary presence with the crucial capacity to ease and make more meaningful our relationships to those with whom we may not have had a connection before. Translation always helps us to know, to see from a different angle, to attribute new value to what once may have been unfamiliar. As nations and as individuals, we have a critical need for that kind of understanding and insight. The alternative is unthinkable"."--Jacket.

Author : Eric Sellin
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815637039

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The Magic Mirror of Literary Translation by Eric Sellin Pdf

Sellin invites readers to explore the daunting and often unsung work of literary translators. With wry humor and an engaging conversational style, Sellin shares his insight on the art and science of translation, including the many nuanced solutions he’s developed for some of the more sensitive problems that frustrate translators of formal poetry. The essays offer a balance of commentary on structural challenges as well as linguistic and aesthetic issues, giving readers practical and theoretical advice gained from a long career as a professor, poet, editor, and translator.