Translation and Stylistic Variation - Dialect and Heteroglossia in Northern Irish Poetic Translation

Translation and Stylistic Variation considers the ways in which translators use stylistic variation, analyzing the works of three Northern Irish poet-translators to look at how, in this variety, the translation process becomes a creative act by which translators can explore their own linguistic and cultural heritage.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; List of credits; List of acronyms and abbreviations; 1. Northern Ireland, translation and linguistic choice; 2. Visible dialect and the problem of interpretation; 3. Subversion: translation style performs linguistic hybridity; 4. Linguistic collision and renewal; 5. Conclusions: remaking texts via the local; Appendix 1 - The Road to Inver: original poems; Bibliography; Index

About the author

Helen Gibson is a translator and researcher from Northern Ireland. She finished her PhD on translation, dialect and Northern Irish poetry at the University of East Anglia in 2018, and published a chapter in Untranslatability: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2019). Her work concentrates on stylistic choices in translation, including the use of dialect and heteroglossia, and the intersection between translation and postcolonial studies.

Summary

Translation and Stylistic Variation considers the ways in which translators use stylistic variation, analyzing the works of three Northern Irish poet-translators to look at how, in this variety, the translation process becomes a creative act by which translators can explore their own linguistic and cultural heritage.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Gibson, Gibson Helen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032217130
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3221713-0
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Routledge Studies in Literary Translation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Poetry, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Ireland, Translation & interpretation, Literary studies: general, Translation and interpretation