Translation and the Languages of Modernism Gender, Politics, Language

This study examines the practice and functions of literary translation in Anglo-American Modernism. Rather than approaching translation as a trans-historical procedure for reproducing semantic meaning between different languages, Yao discusses how Modernist writers both conceived and employed transl...

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Main Author: Yao, Steven G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2002, 2002
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This study examines the practice and functions of literary translation in Anglo-American Modernism. Rather than approaching translation as a trans-historical procedure for reproducing semantic meaning between different languages, Yao discusses how Modernist writers both conceived and employed translation as a complex strategy for accomplishing such feats as exploring the relationship between gender and poetry, creating an authentic national culture and determining the nature of a just government, all of which in turn led to developments in both poetic and novelistic form. Thus, translation emerges in this study as a literary practice crucial to the very development of Anglo-American Modernism
Physical Description:XII, 291 p online resource
ISBN:9781137059796