Translation practices : through language to culture /
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 l...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2009.
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| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
122. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Manfred Pfister
- Language as means
- 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 Berlin / Sonia Cunico
- Translating "America" in 90s Italian fiction / Kate Litherland
- Culture as target
- La Bible d'Amiens : translation and transformation / Emily Eels
- 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
- Languages of culture
- 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
- Appendix
- Translating Dacia; two poems / David Platzer.
