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Translator in the Text: On Reading Russian Literature in English » (1)
Authors: Rachel May
ISBN-13: 9780810111578, ISBN-10: 0810111578
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Date Published: November 1994
Edition: 1
Author Biography: Rachel May
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| List of Translation Examples | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Note on Transliteration | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Discourse and the Translated Novel | 2 | |
| Translation across Boundaries: Some Trends in Translation Studies | 6 | |
| Ch. 1 | Translation Culture | 11 |
| Translation and the Receiving Culture | 11 | |
| Nineteenth-Century "Informational" Translation | 13 | |
| Turgenev as Victorian Writer | 22 | |
| Dostoevsky and Tolstoy | 27 | |
| The "Russian Craze" | 30 | |
| Constance Garnett | 37 | |
| The Soviet Period | 42 | |
| Recent Trends | 49 | |
| Ch. 2 | Narrator and Translator | 57 |
| The Personal Narrator | 57 | |
| Outer Forces: The Politics of Style | 59 | |
| Inner Forces: Toward a Grammar of Translation | 65 | |
| Deixis | 66 | |
| Interjections and parentheticals | 68 | |
| Pragmatic connectors | 72 | |
| Tense shifts | 76 | |
| Colloquial register | 77 | |
| The Personal Narrator and the Translator | 83 | |
| Ch. 3 | Narrated Monologue: Translating a Shifting Viewpoint | 89 |
| Introduction | 89 | |
| Narrated Monologue in Russian Literature | 91 | |
| Interjections and Unambiguous Shifts in Perspective | 91 | |
| Tense Shifts and Narrated Monologue | 96 | |
| Impersonal Constructions | 99 | |
| Narrated Monologue - An Extended Example | 102 | |
| Narrated Monologue as Cultural Category | 105 | |
| Translating the "Penetrated Word" | 109 | |
| Postscript: Things Left Unsaid | 116 | |
| Ch. 4 | Translating the Written Text: Reanalyzing Form and Structure | 119 |
| Form and Meaning | 119 | |
| Sentence as Focus: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anatolii Kim | 121 | |
| Punctuation as Visual Art: Abram Tertz | 130 | |
| Translation and Punctuation | 132 | |
| Conclusion: Teaching Literature in Translation | 141 | |
| Appendix One: Fact vs. Fiction: Two Translations of Bulgakov's Master i Margarita | 145 | |
| Appendix Two: Observing the Grotesque: Two Classics of Formalist Criticism and English Translations | 155 | |
| Notes | 167 | |
| References | 187 | |
| Index | 203 |
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