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Poetry Translating as Expert Action: Processes, priorities and networks

By Francis R. Jones

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
2011
ISBN
9027224412, 9789027224415
ISSN
0929-7316
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (18045096 bytes)
Series
Benjamins Translation Library 93
Pages
xvi+228\246
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-11-14 01:21:28
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Description

Poetry is a highly valued form of human expression, and poems are challenging texts to translate. For both reasons, people willingly work long and hard to translate them, for little pay but potentially high personal satisfaction. This book shows how experienced poetry translators translate poems and bring them to readers, and how they not only shape new poems, but also help communicate images of the source culture. It uses cognitive and sociological translation-studies methods to analyse real data, most of it from two contrasting source countries, the Netherlands and Bosnia. Case studies, including think-aloud studies, analyse how translators translate poems. In interviews, translators explain why and how they translate. And a 17-year survey of a country’s poetry-translation output explores how translators work within networks of other people and texts – publishing teams, fellow translators, source-culture enthusiasts, and translation readers and critics. In mapping the whole sweep of poetry translators’ action, from micro-cognitive to macro-social, this book gives the first translation-studies overview of poetry translating since the 1970s.

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