The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Translation

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This Handbook offers a comprehensive and engaging overview of contemporary issues in Literary Translation research through in-depth investigations of actual case studies of particular works, authors or translators. Leading researchers from across the globe discuss best practice, problems, and possibilities in the translation of poetry, novels, memoir and theatre. Divided into three sections, these analyses also address broad themes including translation style, the author-translator-reader relationship, and relationships between national identity and literary translation. The case studies are drawn from languages and language varieties, such as Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Nigerian English, Russian, Spanish, Scottish English and Turkish. The editors provide thorough introductory and concluding chapters, which highlight the value of case study research, and explore in detail the importance of the theory-practice link. Intro Preface Acknowledgments Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures List of Tables Introduction Literary Translation and the Case Study Methods and Methodologies in Literary Translation Case Studies References Section I: Literary Translation and Style Translating the Poetry of Nelly Sachs Introduction Nelly Sachs as Poet and Translator Translations of Two Poems by Sachs Conclusion References The Poetry of Gerrit Achterberg: A Translation Problem? Introduction Gerrit Achterberg: A Canonical Dutch Poet Achterberg's Poetry in Translation Some Possible Reasons for Achterberg's Invisibility Outside the Dutch Literary SystemThe Challenge of Translating Achterberg's Poetry: A Peculiarly Difficult Poet? Conclusions References Stylistic Choices in the Japanese Translations of Crime and Punishment Introduction The Choice of Subject Matter The Use of the Third-Person Pronoun "kare" and "-ta" Endings in the Six Versions of Tsumi to Batsu The Use of Third-Person Pronouns in the Six Versions of Tsumi to Batsu The Use of "-ta" Endings in the Six Versions of Tsumi to Batsu Conclusion References Genre in Translation: Reframing Patagonia ExpressIntroduction Ambiguous Genre: Patagonia Express The Genre in Translation The Genre Disambiguation in the English Translation The Genre Disambiguation in the Italian Translation Positioning of the Reader and Reader Responses Conclusion References A De-feminized Woman in Conan Doyle's The Yellow Face Introduction The Yellow Face in Japanese A Text Analysis Mikami's Translation and Okubo's Early Draft Okubo's Early Draft and the Final Version Okubo's Shadow Translation and the Accepted Translation An Interview with the Translator Some Implications of This Shadow TranslationReferences Translating Voices in Crime Fiction: The Case of the French Translation of Brookmyre's Quite Ugly One Morning Introduction: Scottish Crime Fiction and Bookmyre's Novels The Case Crime Fiction in Originals and in Translation Point of View in Narrative Fiction and Translation Methods: Case Study, Systemic Functional Grammar and Register Analysis Analyzing Voices in Quite Ugly One Morning Scottish Characters McGregor Jack Parlabane English Voice: Sarah Slaughter Concluding Remarks References The Case of Natascha Wodin's Autobiographical Novels: A Corpus-­Stylistics ApproachIntroduction Style and Corpus Methodologies Corpus Analysis Sentence Length Repetition Conclusion References Hysteresis of Translatorial Habitus: A Case Study of Aziz Üstel's Turkish Translation of A Clockwork Orange Introduction Theoretical Background and Key Concepts of the Study Bourdieusian Concepts The Concepts of Narrative and Framing Aziz Üstel's Socialisation in the Turkish Political and Literary Fields Historical Background to the Translation Aziz Üstel's Trajectory