Authorizing Translation

ISBN-13: 9781138195776 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 118 str.

Michelle Woods

Opis

This groundbreaking volume re-calibrates how translation studies opens up readings of authority and text and how translation studies as a field affects how translations are enacted and how they are read. Six case study-based essays shed light on some central themes: translation theory and translation criticism; translingualism; the translator s increasing presence in the text; pseudo-translation; translation and authorship; and the translator s fictionalization of the translation process. This collection will be of interest to students and researchers in the areas of Translation, Translation Studies, and those studying translation within comparative literature. "

Recenzje

"Against a well-argued theoretical backdrop, this beautifully conceived collection of essays revisits what lies at the core of the act of translation: the translator's reading of a given text. For some time the translator's hermeneutic authority has been sidelined by various approaches that highlight context rather than agency. It is invigorating to see a new literary-critical perspective deployed in the examination of six fascinating examples of how translators can make creative interventions in their work, ‘usurping’ the role of the author." Leo Tak-hung Chan, Lingnan University, China

O autorze

Michelle Woods is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, New Paltz. She is the author of Translating Milan Kundera (2006), Censoring Translation: Censorship, Theatre and the Politics of Translation (2012), and Kafka Translated: How Translators Have Shaped Our Reading of Kafka (2013).