Translation practices : through language to culture /

Translation practices : through language to culture / / edited by Ashley Chantler and Carla Dente.

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This cutting-edge collection, born of a belief in the value of approaching ‘translation’ in a wide range of ways, contains essays of interest to students and scholars of translation, literary and textual studies. It provides insights into the relations between translation and comparative literature,...

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Superior document:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 122
TeilnehmendeR:
Chantler, Ashley.
Dente, Carla.
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 122.
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Editors’ Preface / Ashley Chantler and Carla Dente
  • Introduction / Manfred Pfister
  • The European Lending Library: Borrowing, Translating, and Returning Texts / Lynne Long
  • Translating Intensifiers: (Non-)Equivalences Across English and Italian / Silvia Cacchiani
  • The Coining of Italian Phraseological Units Through the Translation of Analogous English Phrases / Stephen Coffey
  • Difficulty of Slang Translation / Elisa Mattiello
  • Translating Humour: The Case of Stefano Benni / Monica Boria
  • Translating Characterization: Dario Fo’s Morte accidentale Travels to Britain / Sonia Cunico
  • Translating ‘America’ in 90's Italian Fiction / Kate Litherland
  • La Bible d’Amiens: Translation and Transformation / Emily Eells
  • Translating Desire: Ovid and Three Romantic Poets / Philip Shaw
  • ‘She Rises Anew in my Words’: Translating Sainthood in Michèle Roberts’s Impossible Saints / Luanda Stannard
  • Playing Around Cultural Faultlines: The Impact of Modern Translations for the Stage on Perceptions of Ancient Greek Drama / Lorna Hardwick
  • John/Giovanni Florio: The Translator as Go-Between / Manfred Pfister
  • ‘Paring His Fingernails’? The Textual Editor as Translator / Ashley Chantler
  • Translating the Self: The Alias, Alas! / Dave Postles
  • The New Italian Landscape: Between Ghirri’s Photography and Celati’s Fiction / Marina Spunta
  • Translating Dacia; Two Poems / David Platzer
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors.

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