Literary Translator Studies

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This volume extends and deepens our understanding of Translator Studies by charting new territory in terms of theory, methods and concepts. The focus is on literary translators, their roles, identities, and personalities. The book introduces pertinent translator-centered approaches in four sections: historical-biographical studies, social-scientific and process-oriented methods, and approaches that use paratexts or translations to study literary translators. Drawing on a variety of concepts, such as identity, role, self, posture, habitus, and voice, the various chapters showcase forgotten literary translators and shed new light on some well-known figures; they examine literary translators not as functioning units but as human beings in their uniqueness. Literary Translator Studies as a subdiscipline of Translation Studies demonstrates how exploring the cultural, social, psychological, and cognitive facets of translatorial subjects contributes to a holistic understanding of translation. Literary Translator Studies Editorial page Title page Copyright page Table of contents (Literary) Translator Studies: Shaping the field In search of the translator The translator lost and found: From Translation Science to Translator Studies Keeping the door closed: Dehumanized Translation Science Searching for an exit: The rising awareness of the human factor Finding keys: Moving closer to the translatorial subject Translator Studies: A house with many rooms What does the humanization of Translation Studies mean? Translator Studies: Shaping the field Frameworks, paradigms, perspectives Concepts The aims of Translator Studies The focus of the book: The literary translator References Part 1. Biographical and bibliographical avenues 1. Literary detection in the archives: Revealing Jeanne Heywood (1856–1909) Adopting a microhistorical approach Who was Jeanne Heywood? Tracing British archives in American collections Mr C. Heywood Esquire Exploring judicial evidence Connections to the Kessler family Evaluating archival research References 2. George Egerton and Eleanor Marx as mediators of Scandinavian literature Introduction Eleanor Marx George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne) Conclusion References 3. Translator biographies as a contribution to Translator Studies: Case studies from nineteenth-century Galicia The translator biography – an outline of the research paradigm Historical and cultural context The translators Elements of Galician translator biographies Conclusion References 4. Staging the literary translator in bibliographic catalogs Translator Studies meet Library and Information Science The translator’s (in)visibility in bibliographic catalogs Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE, National Library of Spain) Spanish ISBN Agency and Distribuidor de información de libro español en venta (DILVE) REBIUN (Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias) Union Catalog WorldCat UNESCO Index Translationum (IT) The Biblioteca Nacional de España as an example Bibliographic catalogs under discussion Concluding remarks – towards a new methodology References Part 2. Social-scientific and process-oriented approaches 5. “Hemingway’s priorities were just different”: Self-concepts of literary translators Introduction Voice and self-concept Methodology Analysis and discussion Conclusion References 6. Investigating literary translators’ translatorship through narrative identity Introduction Material and method Translators’ contextualized life-stories Life-story as a reader Life-story about the love for one’s native language Life-story as a student Life-story as a writer or a mediator Conclusions References 7. Institutional consecration of fifteen Swedish translators – ‘star translators’ or not? Introduction A general model for reconstructing consecration mechanisms Tokens of institutional consecration of the Swedish literary translation field The studied group of translators Personal trajectories and ‘stardomship’ References Part 3. Paratexts as door-openers 8. The Translator’s Note revisited Introduction Should the translator have a voice? The corpus Translators’ Notes in Group A: Data Translators’ Notes in Group B: Data Translator’s Note: Integration and discussion Inconclusive Conclusion References Appendix 9. Translators of children’s literature and their voice in prefaces and interviews Introduction Definitions, corpus and method Form, place, time, senders and addressees of the prefaces The translators’ teloi in prefaces The translators’ self-perception and self-positioning in prefaces Form, place, time, senders and addressees of the interviews The translators’ teloi in interviews The translators’ self-perception and self-positioning in interviews Conclusions References 10. Translators’ multipositionality, teloi and goals: The case of Harriet Martineau Introduction Being a plural actor: Multiple lives and multipositionality Multiple lives and visibility Multiple lives and their common ground Translatorial teloi and goals The construction of teloi and goals The interplay of multipositionality, teloi and goals A special case: Translation as a life telos Conclusion References 11. Mediating the female transla(u)t(h)orial ‘posture’: Elisabeth Wolff-Bekker Introduction The transla(u)t(h)or’s middle voice Mediating Gender Mediating authorship Mediating (inter)national authority Conclusion References Part 4. Translations and fictions of translations as gateways 12. Traveling translators: Women moving Tolstoy Moving translators References 13. The voices of James Stratton Holmes Holmes’ translations of experimental poetry Translation as voice Holmes’ poetics of equivalence Holmes’ rendering of gendered physicality Conclusion References 14. Determining a translator’s attitude: The test case of Wilhelm Adolf Lindau as a translator of Walter Scott’s novels Introduction Attitude Decidability Ambiguity Undecidability Conclusion References 15. View from left field: The curious case of Douglas Hofstadter Introducing Douglas Hofstadter Le Ton beau de Marot Eugene Onegin That mad ache Summing up References 16. Dressing up for Halloween: Walking the line between translating and writing Introduction: The figure of the translator Rachel Cantor: Translation as new life Idra Novey: The translator as bad girl Conclusion: In praise of translation References New name index New subject index