Translating Literature

by Lefevere, Andre

• ISBN13: 9780873523936
• ISBN10: 0873523938
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-09-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Summary

Designed for the growing number of courses on literary translation, Translating Literature discusses the process and the product of literary translation, incorporating both practical advice for translators and theoretical discussion on the role translations play in the evolution and interpretation of literatures. Exercises and examples highlight problems in translation. Lefevere shows that translations, like history, criticism, and anthologization, are part of a tradition of "rewriting" and are instrumental in the development and the teaching of literatures. Translating Literature concludes with an exhaustive bibliography of translation studies.

"An excellent introductory volume for teachers and students alike.... The effectiveness of Lefevere's volume is further underscored by his successful effort to focus his study across cultures, rather than favoring any specific language or genre". Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography

Table of Contents

Preface for the Instructor	p. 1
Preface for the Student	p. 3
Translation Studies	p. 5
Language	p. 15
Alliteration	p. 20
Allusion	p. 22
Foreign Words	p. 29
Genre	p. 31
Grammatical Norms	p. 35
Metaphor	p. 37
Names	p. 39
Neologisms	p. 41
Off-Rhyme	p. 42
Parody	p. 44
Poetic Diction	p. 49
Pun	p. 51
Register	p. 58
Rhyme and Meter	p. 70
Sound and Nonsense	p. 75
Syntax	p. 78
Typography	p. 80
Word and Thing	p. 82
Text	p. 85
From Passage to Text	p. 86
The Four Levels of Translation	p. 86
Ideology, Poetics, Universe of Discourse	p. 87
Text: Catullus 32	p. 89
Text and Ideology	p. 90
Text and Poetics	p. 91
The Cultural Status of the Text and the Passage of Time	p. 92
Translation Strategies	p. 94
The Weight of Traditional Interpretations of Writers and Their Texts	p. 95
Translation Tactics: The Illocutionary Level	p. 97
Context: The Function of Translation in a Culture	p. 113
From Text to Context: Categories for Further Analysis	p. 114
Audience	p. 115
Authority	p. 116
Image: Culture	p. 125
Literary Translation and Beyond	p. 133
Topics for Classroom Teaching and Research	p. 141
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 147
Index	p. 163
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