Jane Austen Speaks Norwegian - The Challenges of Literary Translation

What can translations reveal about the global reception of any authorship? In Jane Austen Speaks Norwegian: The Challenges of Literary Translation, Marie Nedregotten Sørbø compares two novels and six translations of them. The discussion is entirely in English, as all Norwegian versions are back-translated. This study therefore lends itself to comparisons with other languages, and aims to fill its place as one component in a worldwide field of research; how Jane Austen is understood and transmitted. Moreover, this book presents a selection of pertinent issues for any translator, including abbreviation and elaboration, style and vocabulary, and censorship. Sørbø gives vivid examples of how literary translation happens, and how it serves to interpret and refashion literature for new readerships.

About the author

Marie Nedregotten Sørbø, Ph.D. (2009), University of Oslo, is Professor of English Literature at Volda University College, Norway. The author of Irony and Idyll (Rodopi, 2014), she has published on the reception of women, including Jane Austen and George Eliot.

Product details

• Authors: Marie N Sørbø, Marie N. Sørbø
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.01.2018
• EAN: 9789004337169
• ISBN: 978-90-04-33716-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Costerus New
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics