Translation and Modernism - The Art of Co-Creation

This innovative volume extends existing conversations on translation and modernism with an eye toward bringing renewed attention to its ethically complex, appropriative nature and the subsequent ways in which modernist translators become co-creators of the materials they translate.

List of contents

Contents, Preface, Introduction: "Modernist Translation as Co-Creation", Chapter One: Modernist Translation Writ Large, Chapter Two: Translation and Appropriation: D. H Lawrence and the Fell¿h Songs Chapter Three: Translating "the Russians;" Constance Garnett and Katherine Mansfield Part One: Constance Garnett as Modernist Translator: A Rehabilitation Part Two: Plagiarism as Modernist Translation: Katherine Mansfield and "The-Child-Who-Was-Tired Part Three: Creating a Contemporary Through Translation: Garnett, Mansfield, and the Race to Translate Chekhov Chapter Four: Jean Rhys's Translation of Francis Carco's Perversity: Translation as Apprenticeship Chapter Five: An Invitation to Play Translation: Samuel Beckett and Self-Translation as Co-Creation in "From an Unabandoned Work" (1960), Comment c'est (1961), and How It Is (1964) Coda, Index

About the author

Emily O. Wittman is Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA,and has published many books, co-edited collections and numerous book chapters and articles.

Product details

• Authors: Emily O. Wittman, Emily O. (University of Alabama Wittman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9780367541651
• ISBN: 978-0-367-54165-1
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Translation & interpretation, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Translation and interpretation