Translation and the classic [[electronic resource] ] : identity as change in the history of culture / / edited by Alexandra Lianeri and Vanda Zajko

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (448 p.)
• Disciplina: 880.09
• Soggetto topico: Classical literature - Translations - History and criticism; Transmission of texts
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: LianeriAlexandra ZajkoVanda
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Still Being Read after so Many Years: Rethinking the Classic through Translation; I. THEORIZING TRANSLATION AND THE CLASSIC; II. THE SURVIVAL OF THE CLASSIC: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANSLATIONS; III. CONTESTING THE CLASSIC: THE POLITICS OF TRANSLATION PRACTICE; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Contemporary translation studies have explored translation not as a means of recovering a source text, but as a process of interpretation and production of literary meaning and value. Translation and the Classic uses this idea to discuss the relationship between translation and the classic text. It proposes a framework in which 'the classic' figures less as an autonomous entity than as the result of the interplay between source text and translation practice and examines theconsequences of this hypothesis for questioning established definitions of the classic: how does translation mediate the s
• Titolo autorizzato: Translation and the classic
• ISBN: 1-281-85299-6; 9786611852993; 0-19-155838-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996218131203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Classical presences.