Overview

Presents Eastern Europe and Russia as a distinctive translation zone, despite significant internal differences in language, religion and history. This book demonstrates the relevance of this region to the scholarship on alternative translation traditions.

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Author:   Brian James Baer (Kent State University)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   89
Weight:   0.780kg
ISBN:  

9789027224378

ISBN 10:   9027224374
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   13 April 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgments; 2. Notes on contributors; 3. Introduction: Cultures of translation (by Baer, Brian James); 4. Part I. Contexts; 5. Shifting contexts: The boundaries of Milan Kundera's Central Europe (by Sabatos, Charles); 6. Nation and translation: Literary translation and the shaping of modern Ukrainian culture (by Chernetsky, Vitaly); 7. Vasilii Zhukovskii as translator and the protean Russian nation (by Cooper, David L.); 8. Romania as Europe's translator: Translation in Constantin Noica's national imagination (by Cotter, Sean); 9. Translating India, constructing self: Konstantin Bal'mont's India as image and ideal in Fin-de-siecle Russia (by Sundaram, Susmita); 10. The water of life: Resuscitating Russian avant-garde authors in Croatian and Serbian translations (by Forrester, Sibelan); 11. Translation trouble: Translating sexual identity into Slovenian (by Tratnik, Suzana); 12. Part II. Subtexts; 13. Between the lines: Totalitarianism and translation in the USSR (by Witt, Susanna); 14. Translation theory and cold war politics: Roman Jakobson and Vladimir Nabokov in 1950s America (by Baer, Brian James); 15. The poetics and politics of Joseph Brodsky as a Russian poet-translator (by Klots, Yasha); 16. Squandered opportunities: On the uniformity of literary translations in postwar Hungary (by Scholz, Laszlo); 17. Meaningful absences: Byron in Bulgarian (by Kostadinova, Vitana); 18. Part III. Pretexts; 19. Translated by Goblin: Global challenge and local response in Post-Soviet translations of Hollywood films (by Strukov, Vlad); 20. No text is an island : Translating Hamlet in twenty-first-century Russia (by Semenenko, Aleksei); 21. Russian dystopia in exile: Translating Zamiatin and Voinovich (by Olshanskaya, Natalia); 22. Between cosmopolitanism and hermeticism: Translating classical tragedy into Polish theater (by Kuharski, Allen J.); 23. The other polysystem: The impact of translation on language norms and conventions in Latvia (by Locmele, Gunta); 24. Translation as condition and theme in Milan Kundera's novels (by Rubes, Jan); 25. Index

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