Translation in Russian Contexts: Culture, Politics, Identity

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This volume represents the first large-scale effort to address topics of translation in Russian contexts across the disciplinary boundaries of Slavic Studies and Translation Studies, thus opening up new perspectives for both fields. Leading scholars from Eastern and Western Europe offer a comprehensive overview of Russian translation history examining a variety of domains, including literature, philosophy and religion. Divided into three parts, this book highlights Russian contributions to translation theory and demonstrates how theoretical perspectives developed within the field help conceptualize relevant problems in cultural context in pre-Soviet, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia. This transdisciplinary volume is a valuable addition to an under-researched area of translation studies and will appeal to a broad audience of scholars and students across the fields of Translation Studies, Slavic Studies, and Russian and Soviet history. Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Double Context of Translation Part I Pre-Soviet Contexts 1 Translation Strategies in Medieval Hagiography: Observations on the Slavic Reception of the Byzantine Vita of Saint Onuphrius 2 Metatext Verbalization in Early and Modern Russian Translations 3 “The Mother of All the Sciences and Arts”: Academic Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Russia as Cultural Transfer 4 Translation as Appropriation: The Russian Operatic Repertoire in the Eighteenth Century 5 Eighteenth-Century Russian Women Translators in the History of Russian Women’s Writing 6 Expressing the Other, Translating the Self: Ivan Kozlov’s Translation Genres 7 Charles Dickens in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Literary Reputation and Transformations of Style 8 Translation as Experiment: Ivan Aksenov’s Pan Tadeusz (1916) Part II Soviet Contexts 9 Translation and Transnationalism: Non-European Writers and Soviet Power in the1920s and 1930s 10 Hemingway’s Transformations in Soviet Russia: On the Translation of For Whom the Bell Tolls by Natalia Volzhina and Evgenia Kalashnikova 11 Soviet Folklore as Translation Project: The Case of Tvorchestvo Narodov SSSR, 1937 12 Western Monsters—Soviet Pets?: Translation and Transculturalism in Soviet Children’s Literature 13 “The Good Are Always the Merry”: British Children’s Literature in Soviet Russia 14 “The Tenth Muse”: Reconceptualizing Poetry Translation in the Soviet Era 15 Translating the Other, Confronting the Self: Soviet Poet Boris Slutskii’s Translations of Bertolt Brecht Part III Late-Soviet and Post-Soviet Contexts 16 (Re)Translation, Ideology, and Business: The Fate of Translated Adventure Fiction in Russia, Before and After 1991 17 “Adieu, Remember Me”: The Hamlet Canon in Post-Soviet Russia 18 Poetic Translation and the Canon: The Case of the Russian Auden 19 Literary Translation, Queer Discourses, and Cultural Transformation: Mogutin Translating/Translating Mogutin 20 Battling around the Exception: A Stateless “Russian” Writer and His Translation in Today’s Estonia Notes on Contributors Index