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UNINA9910785606703321 |
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Titolo |
Translation and translation studies in the Japanese context / / edited by Nana Sato-Rossberg and Judy Wakabayashi |
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London, England : , : Continuum, , [2012] |
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©2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-4411-1459-9 |
1-283-73585-7 |
1-4411-1885-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Collana |
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Bloomsbury advances in translation |
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Soggetti |
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Translating and interpreting - Japan |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
"Continuum International Publishing Group a Bloomsbury Company" -- Title page verso. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half-title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Emergence of Translation Studies as a Discipline in Japan; Introduction; Early works; Translation Studies (TS) in Japan; Who is doing what?; Discussion; "Japanese Translation Studies"; Looking ahead; 2 Situating Translation Studies in Japan within a Broader Context; Introduction; On transplanting paradigms; Chinese debates on the relationship with Euro-American Translation Studies; Implications for Japan |
The current and future state of TS in Japan from an outside perspectiveConclusion; 3 A Nagasaki Translator of Chinese and the Making of a New Literary Genre; Introduction; Existing studies of Kanzan Okajima; Pym's principles and Arida's model; Cultural situation in the mid-Edo period; A multidiscursive translator; Translators and the transfer of culture; Conclusion; 4 Assimilation or Resistance? Yukichi Fukuzawa's Digestive Translation of the West; Introduction; Japan as the "colonized"; Fukuzawa as an agenda-driven translator |
Fukuzawa's understanding of civilization as reflected in his translationsFukuzawa and cannibalist translation; Conclusion; 5 Stylistic Norms in the Early Meiji Period: From Chinese Infl uences to |
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European Influences; Stylistic norms in translation; Kanbun kundoku style as the mainstream style; The origins of kanbun kundoku style; Characteristics of kanbun kundoku style; Characteristics of ōbunmyaku style; Stylistic norms in the first decade of the Meiji period; Translations of literature; Translations by Shiken Morita; Conclusion |
6 On the Creative Function of Translation in Modern and Postwar Japan: Hemingway, Proust, and Modern Japanese NovelsIntroduction; Translated literature and creativity: Rereading the Rakuchū shomon (Kyōto letters) controversy; The impact of Hemingway-style prose; Translation of Marcel Proust and the rhythm of prose; Rhetorical or structural? The creative aspect of translation; Conclusion; 7 Translating Place-Names in a Colonial Context: Two Dictionaries of Ainu Toponymy; Introduction; Historical background and Ainu place-names; Hōsei Nagata and Mashiho Chiri; Hōsei Nagata's dictionary |
Mashiho Chiri's dictionaryComparison of the translations; Conclusion; 8 Japanese in Shifting Contexts: Translating Canadian Nikkei Writers into Japanese; What is different about Japanese in the Americas?; Obasan and Ushinawareta sokoku; The Electrical Field and Mado kara no nagame; Rethinking intralingual translation; 9 Pretranslation in Modern Japanese Literature and what it tells us about "World Literature"; Making Japanese literature "fit" for world literature; On opening doors to the world from the inside; Japanese literature in a transnational dimension |
Japanese authors pretranslating their works |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Japanis often regarded as a 'culture of translation'. Oral and written translationhas played a vital role in Japan over the centuries and led to a body ofthinking and research rooted in a context about which little information hasbeen available outside of Japan in the past. Thechapters examine the current state of translation studies as an academicdiscipline in Japan and a range of historical aspects (e.g., translation of Chinesevernacular novels in early modern times, the role of translation in Japan'smodernization, changes in stylistic norms in Meiji-period translations, 'thicktranslation' o |
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