'Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts'

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Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts

Literary translation in Eastern Europe and Russia

Edited by Brian James Baer

Kent State University

Benjamins Translation Library 89

2011. xii, 332 pp.
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This volume presents Eastern Europe and Russia as a distinctive translation zone, despite significant internal differences in language, religion and history. The persistence of large multilingual empires, which produced bilingual and even polyglot readers, the shared experience of “belated modernity” and the longstanding practice of repressive censorship produced an incredibly vibrant, profoundly politicized, and highly visible culture of translation throughout the region as a whole. The individual contributors to this volume examine diverse manifestations of this shared translation culture from the Romantic Age to the present day, revealing literary translation to be at times an embarrassing reminder of the region’s cultural marginalization and reliance on the West and at other times a mode of resistance and a metaphor for cultural supercession. This volume demonstrates the relevance of this region to the current scholarship on alternative translation traditions and exposes some of the Western assumptions that have left the region underrepresented in the field of Translation Studies.

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Table of contents

Acknowledgments
Notes on contributors
Introduction: Cultures of translation Brian James Baer
Part I. Contexts
Shifting contexts: The boundaries of Milan Kundera’s Central Europe Charles Sabatos
Nation and translation: Literary translation and the shaping of modern Ukrainian culture Vitaly Chernetsky
Vasilii Zhukovskii as translator and the protean Russian nation David L. Cooper
Romania as Europe’s translator: Translation in Constantin Noica’s national imagination Sean Cotter
Translating India, constructing self: Konstantin Bal’mont’s India as image and ideal in Fin-de-siècle Russia Susmita Sundaram
The water of life: Resuscitating Russian avant-garde authors in Croatian and Serbian translations Sibelan Forrester
Translation trouble: Translating sexual identity into Slovenian Suzana Tratnik
Part II. Subtexts
Between the lines: Totalitarianism and translation in the USSR Susanna Witt
Translation theory and cold war politics: Roman Jakobson and Vladimir Nabokov in 1950s America Brian James Baer
The poetics and politics of Joseph Brodsky as a Russian poet-translator Yasha Klots
Squandered opportunities: On the uniformity of literary translations in postwar Hungary László Scholz
Meaningful absences: Byron in Bulgarian Vitana Kostadinova
Part III. Pretexts
Translated by Goblin: Global challenge and local response in Post-Soviet translations of Hollywood films Vlad Strukov
“No text is an island”: Translating Hamlet in twenty-first-century Russia Aleksei Semenenko
Russian dystopia in exile: Translating Zamiatin and Voinovich Natalia Olshanskaya
Between cosmopolitanism and hermeticism: Translating classical tragedy into Polish theater Allen J. Kuharski
The other polysystem: The impact of translation on language norms and conventions in Latvia Gunta Ločmele and Andrejs Veisbergs
Translation as condition and theme in Milan Kundera’s novels Jan Rubeš
Index

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Vitana Kostadinova
MA, MPhil, PhD
Senior lecturer in English
English Department
The Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
24 Tsar Assen Street
Plovdiv 4000
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Dora Panayotova
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Education Dept.
U.C. Santa Cruz
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