Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations

The most detailed and wide-ranging comparative study to date of how European literatures written in less well known languages try, through translation, to reach the wider world, rejecting the predominant narrative of tragic marginalization with case studies of endeavour and innovation from nineteenth-century Swedish women's writing to twenty-first-century Polish fantasy.

About the author

Rajendra Chitnis is a Senior Lecturer in Russian and Czech at the University of Bristol.
Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen is a Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies at University College London.
Rhian Atkin is the programme director for Portuguese and Lusophone Studies at Cardiff University.
Zoran Milutinovic is a Professor of South Slav Literature and Modern Literary Theory at University College London.

Summary

The most detailed and wide-ranging comparative study to date of how European literatures written in less well known languages try, through translation, to reach the wider world, rejecting the predominant narrative of tragic marginalization with case studies of endeavour and innovation from nineteenth-century Swedish women's writing to twenty-first-century Polish fantasy.

Product details

• Authors: Rajendra Chitnis, Rajendra Stougaard-Nielsen Chitnis
• Assisted by: Rhian Atkin (Editor), Rhian (School of Modern Languages Atkin (Editor), Rajendra Chitnis (Editor), Zoran Milutinovic (Editor), Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (Editor)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781789620528
• ISBN: 978-1-78962-052-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europa, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Publishing, Übersetzen und Dolmetschen, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literature - Classics / Criticism