Translation As Creativecritical Practice

This Element explores examples of translation as both a norm-breaking and world-making activity in the works of Kate Briggs, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, Noémie Grunenwald, Anne Carson, Charles Bernstein, Chantal Wright or Slavs and Tatars and prompts us to reconsider the current place of translation practice in translation studies.

List of contents

Introduction: 1. The translation memoir as autotheory; 2. Performative translations; 3. Transtopias; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Summary

This Element explores examples of translation as both a norm-breaking and world-making activity in the works of Kate Briggs, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, Noémie Grunenwald, Anne Carson, Charles Bernstein, Chantal Wright or Slavs and Tatars and prompts us to reconsider the current place of translation practice in translation studies.

Foreword

This Element theorises translation as creative-critical practice by challenging the separation between practice and theory.

Product details

• Authors: Delphine Grass, Delphine (Lancaster University) Grass, Grass Delphine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2023
• EAN: 9781009462556
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0946255-6
• No. of pages: 88
• Series: Elements in Translation and Interpreting
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Translation & interpretation, Philosophy: aesthetics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Historical and comparative linguistics, Translation and interpretation