Lives and Deaths of Werther - Interpretation, Translation, and Adaptation in Europe and East Asia

An investigation of how interepreations, translations, and literary adaptations of Goethe's novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther have left their mark on the original text. Kaminski situates the text's legacy among Italian, French, Chinese, and Japanese writers, and explores the dynamics of world literature.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Joys and Sorrows of Interpretation


• 2: The Translator, Translated


• 3: Revolutionary Afterlives


• 4: Thanatological Revenants


• Closing Remarks


• Bibliography

About the author

Dr Johannes Kaminski is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2011 and has held research posts at the University of Cambridge, Taipei, Vienna, and Comenius University Bratislava. As a scholar of comparative literature, Kaminski's research is focused on the literature of Goethezeit, Chinese modernism, and contemporary science-fiction.

Summary

An investigation of how interepreations, translations, and literary adaptations of Goethe's novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther have left their mark on the original text. Kaminski situates the text's legacy among Italian, French, Chinese, and Japanese writers, and explores the dynamics of world literature.

Additional text

Lives and Deaths of Werther is an impressive piece of comparative literary scholarship. Working with and translating original texts in German, French, Italian, Japanese and Chinese, Kaminski explores how, through what he terms literary embedded "grafting", critical and creative responses to Goethe's novel embedded the the mutable Werther in world literary culture.

Product details

• Authors: Kaminski, Johannes Kaminski, Johannes (Postdoctoral Fellow Kaminski, Postdoctoral Fellow Johannes (Slovak Aca Kaminski
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2023
• EAN: 9780197267554
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726755-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: British Academy Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, Literature & literary studies, Translation & interpretation, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Translation and interpretation