Translation classics in context:

"Translation Classics in Context carefully considers the relationship between translation and the classics. It presents readers with revelatory and insightful case studies that investigate translations produced as part of nexuses of colonial resistance and liberation across Africa and in Irelan...

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Other Authors: Bandia, Paul F. 1961- (Editor), Hadley, James Luke (Editor), McElduff, Siobhán 1970- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2025
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Summary:"Translation Classics in Context carefully considers the relationship between translation and the classics. It presents readers with revelatory and insightful case studies that investigate translations produced as part of nexuses of colonial resistance and liberation across Africa and in Ireland; translations of novels and folklore collections that influence not just other fictions, but stage productions and entire historical disciplines. As well as struggles over Ukrainian and Russian literature and how it is shaped and transferred; and the role of the academy and the curriculum in creating notions of classic translations. Along the way it covers oral poetry, saints and scholars, Walter Scott and Jules Verne, not to mention Leo Tolstoy and the corpse bride making her way from folklore to Frankenstein and into the world of Disney animation. Contributors are all leading scholars, and the book is accessible and engaging, assuming no specialist knowledge"--
Physical Description:x, 236 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:9781032674445
9781032674452

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