Translating England Into Russian

Author : Elena Goodwin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350134003

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Translating England into Russian by Elena Goodwin Pdf

From governesses with supernatural powers to motor-car obsessed amphibians, the iconic images of English children's literature helped shape the view of the nation around the world. But, as Translating England into Russian reveals, Russian translators did not always present the same picture of Englishness that had been painted by authors. In this book, Elena Goodwin explores Russian translations of classic English children's literature, considering how representations of Englishness depended on state ideology and reflected the shifting nature of Russia's political and cultural climate. As Soviet censorship policy imposed restrictions on what and how to translate, this book examines how translation dealt with and built bridges between cultures in a restricted environment in order to represent images of England. Through analysing the Soviet and post-Soviet translations of Rudyard Kipling, Kenneth Grahame, J. M. Barrie, A. A. Milne and P. L. Travers, this book connects the concepts of society, ideology and translation to trace the role of translation through a time of transformation in Russian society. Making use of previously unpublished archival material, Goodwin provides the first analysis of the role of translated English children's literature in modern Russian history and offers fresh insight into Anglo-Russian relations from the Russian Revolution to the present day. This ground-breaking book is therefore a vital resource for scholars of Russian history and literary translation.

Author : Cathy McAteer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000343434

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Translating Great Russian Literature by Cathy McAteer Pdf

Launched in 1950, Penguin’s Russian Classics quickly progressed to include translations of many great works of Russian literature and the series came to be regarded by readers, both academic and general, as the de facto provider of classic Russian literature in English translation, the legacy of which reputation resonates right up to the present day. Through an analysis of the individuals involved, their agendas, and their socio-cultural context, this book, based on extensive original research, examines how Penguin’s decisions and practices when translating and publishing the series played a significant role in deciding how Russian literature would be produced and marketed in English translation. As such the book represents a major contribution to Translation Studies, to the study of Russian literature, to book history and to the history of publishing.

Author : Elena Goodwin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350134010

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Translating England into Russian by Elena Goodwin Pdf

From governesses with supernatural powers to motor-car obsessed amphibians, the iconic images of English children's literature helped shape the view of the nation around the world. But, as Translating England into Russian reveals, Russian translators did not always present the same picture of Englishness that had been painted by authors. In this book, Elena Goodwin explores Russian translations of classic English children's literature, considering how representations of Englishness depended on state ideology and reflected the shifting nature of Russia's political and cultural climate. As Soviet censorship policy imposed restrictions on what and how to translate, this book examines how translation dealt with and built bridges between cultures in a restricted environment in order to represent images of England. Through analysing the Soviet and post-Soviet translations of Rudyard Kipling, Kenneth Grahame, J. M. Barrie, A. A. Milne and P. L. Travers, this book connects the concepts of society, ideology and translation to trace the role of translation through a time of transformation in Russian society. Making use of previously unpublished archival material, Goodwin provides the first analysis of the role of translated English children's literature in modern Russian history and offers fresh insight into Anglo-Russian relations from the Russian Revolution to the present day. This ground-breaking book is therefore a vital resource for scholars of Russian history and literary translation.

Author : Serafima Radivilova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015045658195

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Translating from English Into Russian by Serafima Radivilova Pdf

A systematic guide to translating specific English grammatical forms into Russian forms. Based on the assumption that adult learners of foreign languages program what they are going to write or say in their native language, the book covers how to change the dictionary entries of Russian words into the grammatically correct forms from the simplest and most frequently used English equivalents. Chapters cover pronouns, adjectives, numerals, verbs, verbs of motion, past participles, infinitives, adverbs, and conjunctions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Alexandr Zaytsev
Publisher : Springer
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811008436

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A Guide to English–Russian and Russian–English Non-literary Translation by Alexandr Zaytsev Pdf

Lying at the intersection of translatology, cognitive science and linguistics, this brief provides a comprehensive framework for studying, investigating and teaching English-Russian/Russian-English non-literary translation. It provides a holistic perspective on the process of non-literary translation, illustrating each of its steps with carefully analyzed real-life examples. Readers will learn how to choose and process multidimensional attention units in original texts by activating different types of knowledge, as well as how to effectively devise target-language matches for them using various translation techniques. It is rounded out with handy and feasible recommendations on the structure and content of an undergraduate course in translation. The abundance of examples makes it suitable not only for use in the classroom, but also for independent study.

Author : Natalia Strelkova
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0781812674

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Introduction to Russian-English Translation by Natalia Strelkova Pdf

This text provides Russian-English translators with essential tools needed to improve their translation skills. This practical, hands-on book is suited for anyone involved in Russian-English translation, including professional translators, interpreters, and advanced students. Author Natalia Strelkova imparts over 35 years of experience as a translator and editor, with an emphasis on translating journalistic idiom. A focus on the conversational Russian of everyday life -- plus dozens of examples and practice exercises -- prepare the user for the day-to-day work of translating and editing. Russian is the most widely-spoken Slavic language, and its 280 million speakers make it the fifth most-spoken language in the world. Seven chapters cover topics such as: The Translation Process What is Accuracy? How Professionals Maneuver around Difficulties Achieving Readability Notes on Everyday Russian Culture

Author : Brian James Baer,Susanna Witt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315305332

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Translation in Russian Contexts by Brian James Baer,Susanna Witt Pdf

This volume represents the first large-scale effort to address topics of translation in Russian contexts across the disciplinary boundaries of Slavic Studies and Translation Studies, thus opening up new perspectives for both fields. Leading scholars from Eastern and Western Europe offer a comprehensive overview of Russian translation history examining a variety of domains, including literature, philosophy and religion. Divided into three parts, this book highlights Russian contributions to translation theory and demonstrates how theoretical perspectives developed within the field help conceptualize relevant problems in cultural context in pre-Soviet, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia. This transdisciplinary volume is a valuable addition to an under-researched area of translation studies and will appeal to a broad audience of scholars and students across the fields of Translation Studies, Slavic Studies, and Russian and Soviet history. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315305356.

Author : O. Classe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Authors
ISBN : 1884964362

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Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L by O. Classe Pdf

Author : Horace William Dewey,John Mersereau (Jr.)
Publisher : Contemporary Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038563438

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Reading and Translating Contemporary Russian by Horace William Dewey,John Mersereau (Jr.) Pdf

A book for English speaking learners of Russian as a foreign language.

Author : Josephine L. Walkowicz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic data processing
ISBN : UOM:39015077289653

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A Bibliography of Foreign Developments in Machine Translation and Information Processing by Josephine L. Walkowicz Pdf

Author : Brian James Baer,Natalia Olshanskaya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317640035

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Russian Writers on Translation by Brian James Baer,Natalia Olshanskaya Pdf

Since the early eighteenth century, following Peter the Great’s policy of forced westernization, translation in Russia has been a very visible and much-discussed practice. Generally perceived as an important service to the state and the nation, translation was also viewed as a high art, leading many Russian poets and writers to engage in literary translation in a serious and sustained manner. As a result, translations were generally regarded as an integral part of an author’s oeuvre and of Russian literature as a whole. This volume brings together Russian writings on translation from the mid-18th century until today and presents them in chronological order, providing valuable insights into the theory and practice of translation in Russia. Authored by some of Russia’s leading writers, such as Aleksandr Pushkin, Fedor Dostoevskii, Lev Tolstoi, Maksim Gorkii, and Anna Akhmatova, many of these texts are translated into English for the first time. They are accompanied by extensive annotation and biographical sketches of the authors, and reveal Russian translation discourse to be a sophisticated and often politicized exploration of Russian national identity, as well as the nature of the modern subject. Russian Writers on Translation fills a persistent gap in the literature on alternative translation traditions, highlighting the vibrant and intense culture of translation on Europe’s ‘periphery’. Viewed in a broad cultural context, the selected texts reflect a nuanced understanding of the Russian response to world literature and highlight the attempts of Russian writers to promote Russia as an all-inclusive cultural model.

Author : Rachel May
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810111585

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The Translator in the Text by Rachel May Pdf

What does it mean to read one nation's literature in another language? The considerable popularity of Russian literature in the English-speaking world rests almost entirely upon translations. In The Translator and the Text, Rachel May analyzes Russian literature in English translation, seeing it less as a substitute for the original works than as a subset of English literature, with its own cultural, stylistic, and narrative traditions.

Author : Galina Kruberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : English language
ISBN : 0802024734

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A Handbook for Translating from English Into Russian by Galina Kruberg Pdf

Author : Vladimir Lorchenkov
Publisher : New Vessel Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939931009

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The Good Life Elsewhere by Vladimir Lorchenkov Pdf

The Good Life Elsewhere is a very funny book. It is also a very sad one. In it, Moldovan writer Vladimir Lorchenkov tells the story of a group of villagers and their tragicomic efforts, against all odds and at any cost, to emigrate from Europe’s most impoverished nation to Italy for work. This is a book with wild imagination and heartbreaking honesty, grim appraisals alongside optimistic commentary about the nature of human striving. The Good Life Elsewhere aims to present the complexity of a new Europe, where allegiances shift but memories are rooted in place. The book integrates small-scale human follies with strategic partnerships, unification plans, and the Soviet legacies that still hang over the former Eastern Bloc. Lorchenkov addresses the vexing question of what to do when many formerly pro-Soviet/pro-Russia countries want to link arms with their West European brethren. In Lorchenkov’s uproarious tale, an Orthodox priest is deserted by his wife for an art-dealing atheist; a mechanic redesigns his tractor for travel by air and sea; thousands of villagers take to the road on a modern-day religious crusade to make it to the promised land of Italy; meanwhile, politicians remain politicians. Like many great satirists from Voltaire to Gogol to Vonnegut, Lorchenkov makes use of the grotesque to both horrify us and help us laugh. It is not often that stories from forgotten countries such as Moldova reach us in the English-speaking world. A country where 25 percent of its population works abroad, where remittances make up nearly 40 percent of the GDP, where alcohol consumption per capita is the highest in the world, and which has the lowest per capita income in all of Europe – this is a country that surely has its problems. But, as Lorchenkov vividly shows, it’s a country whose residents don’t easily give up.

Author : Maurice Friedberg
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271041209

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Literary Translation in Russia by Maurice Friedberg Pdf

In this rich historical study, Maurice Friedberg recounts the impact of translation on the Russian literary process. In tracing the explosion of literary translation in nineteenth-century Russia, Friedberg determines that it introduced new issues of cultural, aesthetic, and political values. Beginning with Pushkin in the early nineteenth century, Friedberg traces the history of translation throughout the lives of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and, more recently, Pasternak. His analysis includes two translators who became Russia's leading literary figures: Zhukovsky, whose renditions of German poetry became famous, and Vvedensky, who introduced Charles Dickens to Russia. In the twentieth century, Friedberg points to Pasternak's Faust to show how apolitical authors welcomed free translation, which offered them an alternative to the original writing from which they had been banned by Soviet authorities. By introducing Western literary works, Russian translators provided new models for Russian literature. Friedberg discusses the usual battles fought between partisans of literalism and of free translation, the influence of Stalinist Soviet government on literary translation, and the political implications of aesthetic clashes. He also considers the impetus of translated Western fiction, poetry, and drama as remaining links to Western civilization during the decades of Russia's isolation from the West. Friedberg argues that literary translation had a profound effect on Russia by helping to erode the Soviet Union's isolation, which ultimately came to an end with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.