Recreation and style [[electronic resource] ] : translating humorous literature in Italian and English / / Brigid Maher |
Autore | Maher Brigid |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
Disciplina | 418/.02 |
Collana | Benjamins translation library |
Soggetto topico |
Translating and interpreting
English language Italian language |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-12201-4
9786613122018 90-272-8688-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460116903321 |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Recreation and style [[electronic resource] ] : translating humorous literature in Italian and English / / Brigid Maher |
Autore | Maher Brigid |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
Disciplina | 418/.02 |
Collana | Benjamins translation library |
Soggetto topico |
Translating and interpreting
English language Italian language |
ISBN |
1-283-12201-4
9786613122018 90-272-8688-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790049103321 |
Maher Brigid
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Recreation and style : translating humorous literature in Italian and English / / Brigid Maher |
Autore | Maher Brigid |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
Disciplina | 418/.02 |
Collana | Benjamins translation library |
Soggetto topico |
Translating and interpreting
English language Italian language |
ISBN |
1-283-12201-4
9786613122018 90-272-8688-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Recreation and Style -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Humorous style and translation -- Making sense of humour -- The translation of humour -- Interdisciplinarity and diversity -- The case studies -- Creation and recreation -- Chapter 2. Outrageous fortune in the lucky country -- Displacement and disjunction -- Finding a space in English -- Exaggerated bodies -- Views and reviews -- The contextual and paratextual spaces of translation -- Chapter 3. Playing for laughs -- Setting the scene: The political and cultural context -- Voice and characterization -- Irony, farcical logic and physical comedy -- Translation and adaptation -- Accidental Death's afterlife in translation -- Chapter 4. Self-styled Wilde behaviour -- Imitation and explicitation -- Self's parody -- Will Self translate? Intertextual and paratextual matters -- Artifice and artificiality -- Puns in the oven -- Understatement and contradiction -- Extra intertextuality -- Translating transgression -- Chapter 5. Apples and (clockwork) oranges -- Nadsat all'italiana -- Nadsat and the reader's attitude -- Funny-peculiar and funny-ha-ha -- 'Disjunctive poetics' and dramatic irony -- Metaphors of violence -- Language, poetics and ideology -- Chapter 6. First person -- Voice and narrative style -- Location, location, location -- Food, sexuality and taboo -- The laughter and tears of migration -- Perceptions and reception -- Chapter 7. Translation as recreation -- References -- Author index -- Subject index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826994703321 |
Maher Brigid
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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