Full Description
This book explores literary translation in a variety of contexts. The chapters showcase the research into literary translation in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Written by a group of experienced researchers and young academics, the contributors study a variety of languages (including English, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, French, Japanese, Dutch, German, and Swedish), use a wide range of approaches (including quantitative review of literary translations; transfictional approaches to translation; and a review of concepts such as paratexts, intralingual translation, intertextuality, and retranslation), and aim to expand on existing debates on translation and translation studies as a discipline. The chapters aim to provide a panorama of the variety of topics and interests of contemporary translation studies, as well as problematize some of the concepts and approaches that seem to have become the only accepted/acceptable model in some academic quarters.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Perspectives Studies in Translation Theory and Practice.
Contents
Introduction - Topics and concepts in literary translation 1. Voices from the periphery: further reflections on relativism in translation studies 2. Reterritorialization and aesthetic transformations: the case of Tony Harrison's Phaedra Britannica and The Misanthrope 3. Translation space in nineteenth-century Belgium: rethinking translation and transfer directions 4. Separated by the same language: Intralingual translation between Dutch and Dutch 5. From Nuoro to Nobel: the impact of multiple mediatorship on Grazia Deledda's movement within the literary semi-periphery 6. The tacit influence of the copy-editor in literary translation 7. The beginnings of literary translation in Japan: an overview 8. Intertextuality in retranslation 9. Reconstructing cultural identity via paratexts: A case study on Lionel Giles' translation of The Art of War 10. Who said what? Translated messages and language interpreters in three texts by Javier Marías and Almudena Grandes
