Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector
Author: Earl E. Fitz
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2024-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1612499430

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian literature and why she has become such a celebrity in the world literature arena. This book also shows why Lispector is not one writer, as many think, but many writers. By offering close readings of her novels, stories, and nonfiction pieces, Earl E. Fitz shows the diverse sides of her literary world. Chapters cover Lispector’s devotion to language and its connection to identity; her political engagement; and her humor, eroticism, and struggle with the concept of God. The last chapter seeks to explain why this most singular of modern Brazilian writers commands such a passionate global following.

Charting the Future of Translation History

Charting the Future of Translation History
Author: Paul F. Bandia
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2006-07-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0776615610

Over the last 30 years there has been a substantial increase in the study of the history of translation. Both well-known and lesser-known specialists in translation studies have worked tirelessly to give the history of translation its rightful place. Clearly, progress has been made, and the history of translation has become a viable independent research area. This book aims at claiming such autonomy for the field with a renewed vigour. It seeks to explore issues related to methodology as well as a variety of discourses on history with a view to laying the groundwork for new avenues, new models, new methods. It aspires to challenge existing theoretical and ideological frameworks. It looks toward the future of history. It is an attempt to address shortcomings that have prevented translation history from reaching its full disciplinary potential. From microhistory, archaeology, periodization, to issues of subjectivity and postmodernism, methodological lacunae are being filled. Contributors to this volume go far beyond the text to uncover the role translation has played in many different times and settings such as Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Middle-east and Asia from the 6th century to the 20th. These contributions, which deal variously with the discourses on methodology and history, recast the discipline of translation history in a new light and pave the way to the future of research and teaching in the field.

Translating Nephesh in the Psalms into Chinese

Translating Nephesh in the Psalms into Chinese
Author: Hui Er Yu
Publisher: Langham Publishing
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2018-08-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1783684704

This interdisciplinary study tackles the controversy of translating nephesh ( נפֶֶשׁ ) by using an intergenerational translation team to deepen our understanding of this term and providing a more valuable translation in Chinese, especially for use in specialist Children’s Bibles. Traditionally nephesh is often translated in the Bible as ‘soul’, but despite the limitations of this popular rendering, it has led Christians in Chinese contexts to falsely understand views regarding the nature of human beings as a trichotomy. Dr Hui Er Yu’s study offers different options for translating nephesh using the context of where the word appears in Scripture as well as in reference to linguistic and cultural meanings in Chinese contexts. The findings in this book will help to remove anthropological misunderstandings among many Chinese Christians related to nephesh as a result of historic translation decisions. Dr Yu takes a unique approach to translation by using an intergenerational Bible translation team, ranging from seven to fifty-one years of age, which not only demonstrates the importance of intergenerational ministry but also presents a way to fulfill the growing need for well-translated Children’s Bibles in China for thousands of young believers. This book provides important lessons for the many translation projects working towards Children’s Bibles but also for how translation of biblical terms can be better reached through this intergenerational process.

Divine Comedies for the New Millennium

Divine Comedies for the New Millennium
Author: Ronald de Rooy
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789053566329

Annotation Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.

The Nordic Bible

The Nordic Bible
Author: Marianne Bjelland Kartzow
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 311068604X

Translation and Rewriting in the Age of Post-Translation Studies

Translation and Rewriting in the Age of Post-Translation Studies
Author: Edwin Gentzler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-11-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317213203

In Translation and Rewriting in the Age of Post-Translation Studies, Edwin Gentzler argues that rewritings of literary works have taken translation to a new level: literary texts no longer simply originate, but rather circulate, moving internationally and intersemiotically into new media and forms. Drawing on traditional translations, post-translation rewritings and other forms of creative adaptation, he examines the different translational cultures from which literary works emerge, and the translational elements within them. In this revealing study, four concise chapters give detailed analyses of the following classic works and their rewritings: A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Germany Postcolonial Faust Proust for Everyday Readers Hamlet in China. With examples from a variety of genres including music, film, ballet, comics, and video games, this book will be of special interest for all students and scholars of translation studies and contemporary literature.

The Change of Narrative Modes in Chinese Fiction (1898–1927)

The Change of Narrative Modes in Chinese Fiction (1898–1927)
Author: Pingyuan Chen
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2022-02-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9811662029

This book examines the Chinese fictions (xiaoshuo) published between 1898 and 1927 – three pivotal decades, during which China underwent significant social changes. It applies Narratology and Sociology of the Novel methods to analyze both the texts themselves and the social-cultural factors that triggered the transformation of the narrative mode in Chinese fiction. Based on empirical data, the author argues that this transformation was not only inspired by translated Western fiction, but was also the result of a creative transformation in tradition Chinese literature.

Identity and Translation Trouble

Identity and Translation Trouble
Author: Ivana Hostová
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2017-08-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1527500802

Besides providing a thorough overview of advances in the concept of identity in Translation Studies, the book brings together a variety of approaches to identity as seen through the prism of translation. Individual chapters are united by the topic and their predominantly cultural approach, but they also supply dynamic impulses for the reader, since their methodologies, level of abstraction, and subject matter differ. The theoretical impulses brought together here include a call for the ecology of translational attention, a proposal of transcultural and farcical translation and a rethinking of Bourdieu’s habitus in terms of František Miko’s experiential complex. The book also offers first-hand insights into such topics as post-communist translation practices, provides sociological insights into the role politics played during state socialism in the creation of fields of translated fiction and the way imported fiction was able to subvert the intentions of the state, gives evidence of the struggles of small locales trying to be recognised though their literature, and draws links between local theory and more widely-known concepts.