Examining Text and Authorship in Translation What Remains of Christa Wolf?

This book, the first in-depth study of authorship in translation, explores how authorial identity is ‘translated’ in the literary text. In a detailed exploration of the writing of East German author Christa Wolf in English translation, it examines how the work of translators, publishers, readers and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Summers, Caroline
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Christa Wolf and the Problem of International Authorship
  • 2. Understanding Translated Authorship
  • 3. The Subjective Narrator: Nachdenken über Christa T.
  • 4. The Author as Feminist: Kassandra
  • 5. Politics, Morality and Aesthetics: Two Translations of Was bleibt
  • 6. Conclusion: What Remains? The Quest for Christa Wolf