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Publication details [#18812]
Gibbels, Elisabeth. 2003. Positioning strategies in the ‘province of men’: Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and its four German translations. In Santaemilia, José, ed. Género, lenguaje y traducción: actas del Primer Seminario Internacional sobre Género y Lenguaje (el género de la traducción - la traducción del género) ; Valencia 16 - 18 octubre 2002. València: Universitat de València. pp. 336–347.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Keywords
Source language
Target language
Person as a subject
Title as subject
Abstract
In this article, the author argues that the indifferent reaction in the German literary world towards A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is partly due to the translator’s positioning strategies that failed to recognize and respect Wollstonecraft’s specific historical discourse position and the resulting rhetoricity in the text. The article looks at samples of Wollstonecraft’s text, with special regard to positioning and addressing, and then compares these with the strategies in the German texts.
Source : Based on abstract in book