Understanding Misunderstanding. Vol.1: Cross-Cultural Translation

ISBN-13: 9783631788073 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 258 str.

Tamara Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz; Magdalena Rembowska-Pluciennik; Beata Sniecikowska

Opis

The book explores the creative potential of misunderstanding in cross-cultural communication. The concept is studied from the perspective of translation studies, literary and cultural history, sociology. Misunderstanding is viewed as an elementary and unavoidable component of any verbal and cultural communication and a factor in artistic creation.

Spis treści

Translation studies - Comparative literature - Cross-Cultural studies - Literary criticism - Literary history - Poetics - Misunderstanding - Artistic communication - Literary Translation - Cross-cultural communication

O autorze

Tamara Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz is Associate Professor at the Department of Historical Poetics, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Her most recent works concern comparative modernism studies, literary translation studies and experimental translation.

Magdalena Rembowska-Pluciennik is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Historical Poetics, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Her main subjects of research are literary theory (cognitive narratology) and literary anthropology.

Beata Sniecikowska is Associate Professor at the Department of Historical Poetics, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Her most recent works concern transcultural genre studies, comparative avant-garde studies and intersemiotics.