Translation and Nation Towards A Cultural Politics of Englishness

by Ellis, Roger; Oakley-Brown, Liz

• ISBN13: 9781853595172
• ISBN10: 1853595179
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-23
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

In recent years the marginal position which has defined translators and their texts has come under increasing and sustained challenge. However, although translation and subjectivity has been thoroughly considered in terms of post-colonialism and post-structuralism, there are few discussions which focus specifically on the construction of "Englishness" through vernacular translation. Using a range of theoretical approaches the five essays in this volume aim to realise such an understanding of translation by critically analyzing the cultural and political implications of translation and the construction of English subjectivities at particular historical moments.

Table of Contents

About the Contributors	p. vi
Introduction	p. 1
Figures of English Translation, 1382-1407	p. 7
Translating the Subject: Ovid's Metamorphoses in England, 1560-7	p. 48
Women Translators, Gender and the Cultural Context of the Scientific Revolution	p. 85
Hooked on Classics: Discourses of Allusion in the Mid-Victorian Novel	p. 120
'All the Others Translate': W.H. Auden's Poetic Dislocations of Self, Nation, and Culture	p. 167
Bibliography and Abbreviations	p. 205
Index	p. 220
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