Translating life [[electronic resource] ] : studies in transpositional aesthetics / / edited by Shirley Chew & Alistair Stead

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453539403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 1-78138-786-9; 1-84631-428-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (433 p.)
• Collana: Liverpool English texts and studies ; ; 33
• Altri autori (Persone): ChewShirley; SteadAlistair
• Disciplina: 418.02; 820.9
• Soggetti: Semiotics; Translations - Philosophy; Literature - Translations - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Translations in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Elizabethan Translation: the Art of the Hermaphrodite; From Stage to Page: Character through Theatre Practices in Romeo and Juliet; Translating the Elizabethan Theatre: the Politics of Nostalgia in Olivier's Henry V; Tempestuous Transformations; '... tinap ober we leck giant': African Celebrations of Shakespeare; (Post)colonial Translations in V. S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival; Sentimental Translation in Mackenzie and Sterne; Hazlitt's Liber Amoris; or, the New Pygmalion (1823): Conversations and the StatueTranslating Value: Marginal Observations on a Central Question; Browning's Old Florentine Painters: Italian Art and Mid-Victorian Poetry; Thackeray and the 'Old Masters'; William Morris and Translations of Iceland; Aestheticism in Translation: Henry James, Walter Pater, and Theodor Adorno; Helena Faucit: Shakespeare's Victorian Heroine; 'More a Russian than a Dane': the Usefulness of Hamlet in Russia; Translation and Self-translation through the Shakespearean Looking-glasses in Joyce's Ulysses; Self-Translation and the Arts of Transposition in Allan Hollinghurst's The Folding StarTranslation in the Theatre I: Directing as Translating; Translation in the Theatre II: Translation as Adaptation; Notes on Contributors; Index of Names
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume brings together eighteen substantial essays by distinguished scholars, critics and translators, and two interviews with eminent figures of British theatre, to explore the idea and practice of translation. The individual, but conceptually related, contributions examine topics from the Renaissance to the present in the context of apt exploration of the translation process, invoking both restricted and extended senses of translation. The endeavour is to study in detail the theory, workings and implications of what might be called the art of creative transposition, effective at the lev