Translation and Modernism

ISBN-13: 9780367541644 / Twarda / 2023 / 278 str.

Emily O. Wittman

Opis

This innovative volume extends existing conversations on translation and modernism with an eye toward bringing renewed attention to its ethically complex, appropriative nature and the subsequent ways in which modernist translators become co-creators of the materials they translate.

Spis treści

Contents, Preface, Introduction: “Modernist Translation as Co-Creation”, Chapter One: Modernist Translation Writ Large, Chapter Two: Translation and Appropriation: D. H Lawrence and the Fellāh Songs Chapter Three:  Translating “the Russians;” Constance Garnett and Katherine Mansfield Part One: Constance Garnett as Modernist Translator: A Rehabilitation Part Two: Plagiarism as Modernist Translation: Katherine Mansfield and “The-Child-Who-Died” Part Three: Creating a Contemporary Through Translation: Garnett, Mansfield, and the Race to Translate Chekhov Chapter Four: Jean Rhys’s Translation of Francis Carco’s Perversity: Translation as Apprenticeship Chapter Five: An Invitation to Play Translation: Samuel Beckett and Self-Translation as Co-Creation in “From an Unabandoned Work” (1960), Comment c’est (1961), and How It Is (1964) Coda, Index

 

 

 

O autorze

Emily O. Wittman is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program in Comparative and World Literature at the University of Alabama, USA.