Perspectives on literature and translation [electronic resource] : creation, circulation, reception / edited by Brian Nelson, Brigid Maher.

"This volume explores the relationship between literature and translation from three perspectives: the creative dimensions of the translation process; the way texts circulate between languages; and the way texts are received in translation by new audiences. The distinctiveness of the volume lie...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Nelson, Brian, 1946- (Editor), Maher, Brigid (Brigid Catherine Anne) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2013.
Series:Routledge advances in translation studies ; 5.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • PART I: Creation: Literature and Translation in the Looking Glass
  • 1. The Art of Hearing the Voice
  • 2. Memory, War and Translation: Mercè Rodoreda's In Diamond Square
  • 3. Szymek from the Village and Joe from Missouri: Problems of Voice in Translating Wiesław Myśliwski's Stone upon Stone
  • 4. Understanding through Translation: Rilke's New Poems
  • 5. Cesare De Marchi and the Author-Translator Dilemma.
  • PART II: Circulation: Texts and Their Transmission
  • 6. Inculturation as Elephant: On Translation and the Spread of Literary Modernity
  • 7. Rainer Maria Rilke in Lucian Blaga's Translations from English
  • 8. Rabindranath Tagore and "World Literature"
  • 9. Buzzati's French Connection: Translation as a Catalyst in a Literary Career
  • 10. A Crook's Tour: Translation, Pseudotranslation and Foreignness in Anglo-Italian Crime Fiction.
  • PART III: Reception: Texts and Their Readers
  • 11. Of Migrants and Working Men: How Pietro di Donato's Christ in Concrete Travelled between the US and Italy through Translation
  • 12. Terra Australis Incognita Even Now? The Reception of Contemporary Australian Literature in Italian Translation
  • 13. Prizing Translation: Book Awards and Literary Translation
  • 14. Footnotes sans Frontières: Translation and Textual Scholarship
  • Contributors
  • Index.