| Translating Life: Studies in Transpositional Aesthetics Contributor(s): Chew, Shirley (Editor), Stead, Alistair (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0853236747 ISBN-13: 9780853236740 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $129.69 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2000 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Translating & Interpreting - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.9 |
| LCCN: 00340363 |
| Lexile Measure: 1580 |
| Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.42" H x 6.44" W x 9.44" (1.64 lbs) 428 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume brings together eighteen substantial essays by distinguished scholars, critics and translators, and two interviews with eminent figures of British theatre, to explore the idea and practice of translation. The individual, but conceptually related, contributions examine topics from the Renaissance to the present in the context of apt exploration of the translation process, invoking both restricted and extended senses of translation. The endeavour is to study in detail the theory, workings and implications of what might be called the art of creative transposition, effective at the level of interlingual transcoding, dynamic rewriting, theatrical and cinematic adaptation, intersemiotic or intermedial translation, and cultural exchange. Many of the essays focus on aspects of intertextuality, the dialogue with text, past and present, as they bear on the issue of translation, attending to the historical, political or cultural dimensions of the practice, whether it illuminates a gendered reading |