Les Belles Etrangeres - Canadians in Paris

Informationen zum Autor Jane Koustas is a professor of the Department of Modern Languages, Literature and Cultures at Brock University. She is the co-editor of Robert Lepage: Théàtre sans frontiers and Vision/Division: l'oeuvre de Nancy Huston . Her research interests include English-Canadian literature in translation, translation theory and practice, translation history in Canada, Quebec theatre and theatre translation. She has served on the jury of the Governor General's Literary Awards, the Quebec Writers' Federation Translation Award and the International Impac Dublin Literary Award. She served as the Craig Dobbin Professor of Canadian Studies at University College Dublin, 2005-06. Klappentext "Les Belles AtrangA]res" examines the history and practice of the translation of Canadian English-language fiction in France, and the process and perils involved in the detour away from Quebec translators. Zusammenfassung Examines the translation of Canadian English-language fiction in France. This book considers the history of this practice! the reasons for the move away from Quebec translators as well as the process and perils involved in this detour. It also considers the historical! theoretical! and concrete aspects of this practice.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Koustas
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.10.2008
• EAN: 9780776606712
• ISBN: 978-0-7766-0671-2
• No. of pages: 181
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Perspectives on Translation; Perspectives on Translation
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics