Beyond the Original - Translation as Experiment

Can DeepL and ChatGPT translate Shakespeare? The recent developments in AI present a timely opportunity to look at the concept of literary translation anew. The contributors to this volume delve into the playful and performative nature of translations that embrace ambiguity, confusion, and even failure. In doing so, they go beyond the conventional view of translation as a reproduction of the original. Highlighting translations that faced criticism or went unnoticed, the contributors offer a new perspective on well-known authors by looking at their lesser-known translated texts.

About the author

Marília Jöhnk ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Sie promovierte in romanistischer Literaturwissenschaft an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin im Rahmen des DFG-Graduiertenkolleg »Literatur- und Wissensgeschichte kleiner Formen«. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen auf den romanischen Literaturen (Lateinamerika, Frankreich, Spanien, Portugal), Mehrsprachigkeit, Postkolonialismus und Genderstudies.

Summary

Can DeepL and ChatGPT translate Shakespeare? The recent developments in AI present a timely opportunity to look at the concept of literary translation anew. The contributors to this volume delve into the playful and performative nature of translations that embrace ambiguity, confusion, and even failure. In doing so, they go beyond the conventional view of translation as a reproduction of the original. Highlighting translations that faced criticism or went unnoticed, the contributors offer a new perspective on well-known authors by looking at their lesser-known translated texts.

Product details

• Assisted by: Dr. Marília Jöhnk (Editor), Marília Jöhnk (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.10.2025
• EAN: 9783837671254
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-7125-4
• No. of pages: 300
• Weight: 468 g
• Series: Literalität und Liminalität
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Experiment, Literature, History, Literary Studies, Culture, German Literature, British Studies, Language, Translation, Psychology, Criticism, Experimental Literature, Philosophy and theory, Culture and institutions, German literature and literatures of related languages, American literature in English, English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures, East Indo-European and Celtic literatures