Literary Translator Studies

Editors

Klaus Kaindl | University of Vienna

Waltraud Kolb | University of Vienna

Daniela Schlager | University of Vienna

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This volume extends and deepens our understanding of Translator Studies by charting new territory in terms of theory, methods and concepts. The focus is on literary translators, their roles, identities, and personalities. The book introduces pertinent translator-centered approaches in four sections: historical-biographical studies, social-scientific and process-oriented methods, and approaches that use paratexts or translations to study literary translators. Drawing on a variety of concepts, such as identity, role, self, posture, habitus, and voice, the various chapters showcase forgotten literary translators and shed new light on some well-known figures; they examine literary translators not as functioning units but as human beings in their uniqueness. Literary Translator Studies as a subdiscipline of Translation Studies demonstrates how exploring the cultural, social, psychological, and cognitive facets of translatorial subjects contributes to a holistic understanding of translation.

[Benjamins Translation Library, 156] 2021. vii, 313 pp.

Publishing status:

https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.156

Table of Contents

(Literary) Translator Studies: Shaping the field

Klaus Kaindl | pp. 1–38

Part 1. Biographical and bibliographical avenues

Chapter 1. Literary detection in the archives: Revealing Jeanne Heywood (1856–1909)

Mary Bardet | pp. 41–53

Chapter 2. George Egerton and Eleanor Marx as mediators of Scandinavian literature

Sabine Strümper-Krobb | pp. 55–71

Chapter 3. Translator biographies as a contribution to Translator Studies: Case studies from nineteenth-century Galicia

Markus Eberharter | pp. 73–88

Chapter 4. Staging the literary translator in bibliographic catalogs

Belén Santana López and Críspulo Travieso Rodríguez | pp. 89–104

Part 2. Social-scientific and process-oriented approaches

Chapter 5. “Hemingway’s priorities were just different”: Self-concepts of literary translators

Waltraud Kolb | pp. 107–121

Chapter 6. Investigating literary translators’ translatorship through narrative identity

Anu Heino | pp. 123–135

Chapter 7. Institutional consecration of fifteen Swedish translators – ‘star translators’ or not?

Yvonne Lindqvist | pp. 137–154

Part 3. Paratexts as door-openers

Chapter 8. The Translator’s Note revisited

Nitsa Ben-Ari | pp. 157–181

Chapter 9. Translators of children’s literature and their voice in prefaces and interviews

Anna Fornalczyk-Lipska | pp. 183–198

Chapter 10. Translators’ multipositionality, teloi and goals: The case of Harriet Martineau

Daniela Schlager | pp. 199–214

Chapter 11. Mediating the female transla(u)t(h)orial posture : Elisabeth Wolff-Bekker

Beatrijs Vanacker | pp. 215–232

Part 4. Translations and fictions of translations as gateways

Chapter 12. Traveling translators: Women moving Tolstoy

Michelle Woods | pp. 235–248

Chapter 13. The voices of James Stratton Holmes

Elke Brems and Jack McMartin | pp. 249–263

Chapter 14. Determining a translator’s attitude: The test case of Wilhelm Adolf Lindau as a translator of Walter Scott’s novels

Susanne Hagemann | pp. 265–278

Chapter 15. View from left field: The curious case of Douglas Hofstadter

Andrew Chesterman | pp. 279–292

Chapter 16. Dressing up for Halloween: Walking the line between translating and writing

Judith Woodsworth | pp. 293–306

Name index | pp. 307–308

Subject index | pp. 309–313

“The volume [...] is the first to address the theoretical and methodological challenges in Translator Studies in a systematic and comprehensive way.”

Lin Chen, Southwest Jiaotong University, in Target 34:3 (2022)

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Subjects

Literature & Literary Studies

Theoretical literature & literary studies

Translation & Interpreting Studies

Translation Studies

Main BIC Subject

CFP: Translation & interpretation

Main BISAC Subject

LAN023000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting

ONIX Metadata

ONIX 2.1

ONIX 3.0

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