ISBN:
9783319401836
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XV, 260 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color, online resource)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Series Statement:
Social Sciences
Parallel Title:
Druckausg.
Parallel Title:
Printed edition
Keywords:
Comparative literature
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Literature Translations
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Germanic languages
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Translation and interpretation
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Discourse analysis
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Linguistics
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Wolf, Christa 1929-2011
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Übersetzung
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Wolf, Christa 1929-2011
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Übersetzung
Abstract:
This book, the first in-depth study of authorship in translation, explores how authorial identity is ‘translated’ in the literary text. In a detailed exploration of the writing of East German author Christa Wolf in English translation, it examines how the work of translators, publishers, readers and reviewers reframes the writer’s identity for a new reading public. This detailed study of Wolf, an author with a complex and contested public profile, intervenes in wide-ranging contemporary debates on globalised literary culture by examining how the fragmented identity of the ‘international’ author is contested by different stakeholders in the construction of a world literature. The book is interdisciplinary in its approach, representing new work in Translation Studies and German Studies that is also of interest and relevance to scholars of literature in other languages
Abstract:
1. Introduction: Christa Wolf and the Problem of International Authorship -- 2. Understanding Translated Authorship -- 3. The Subjective Narrator: Nachdenken über Christa T. -- 4. The Author as Feminist: Kassandra -- 5. Politics, Morality and Aesthetics: Two Translations of Was bleibt -- 6. Conclusion: What Remains? The Quest for Christa Wolf
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-40183-6
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