Translated Poe
by Emron Esplin (Editor)Margarida Vale de Gato (Editor)Ayşe Nihal Akbulut (Contribution by)Bouchra Benlemlih (Contribution by)Liviu Cotrău (Contribution by)Hivren Demir-Atay (Contribution by)Marlene Hansen Esplin (Contribution by)Lenita Esteves (Contribution by)Ástráður Eysteinsson (Contribution by)Zongxin Feng (Contribution by)Maria Filippakopoulou (Contribution by)Daniel Göske (Contribution by)Daniela Hăisan (Contribution by)Magda Mansour Hasabelnaby (Contribution by)Aimei Ji (Contribution by)Henri Justin (Contribution by)Woosung Kang (Contribution by)Marius Littschwager (Contribution by)J. Scott Miller (Contribution by)George Monteiro (Contribution by)Rafael Olea Franco (Contribution by)Elvira Osipova (Contribution by)Renata Philippov (Contribution by)Margarita Rigal-Aragón (Contribution by)Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan (Contribution by)Christopher Rollason (Contribution by)Ugo Rubeo (Contribution by)Takayuki Tatsumi (Contribution by)Alexandra Urakova (Contribution by)Pamela Vicenteño Bravo (Contribution by)Lois Davis Vines (Contribution by)Johan Wijkmark (Contribution by)Eysteinn Þorvaldsson (Contribution by)
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ISBN13: 9781611461718
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Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so much of their current reputations to the process of translation. Translated Poe brings together 31 essays from 19 different national/literary traditions to demonstrate Poe's extensive influence on world literature and thought while revealing the importance of the vehicle that delivers Poe to the world--translation. Translated Poe is not preoccupied with judging the "quality" of any given Poe translation nor with assessing what a specific translation of Poe must or should have done. Rather, the volume demonstrates how Poe's translations constitute multiple contextual interpretations, testifying to how this prolific author continues to help us read ourselves and the world(s) we live in. The examples of how Poe's works were spread abroad remind us that literature depends as much on authorial creation and timely readership as on the languages and worlds through which a piece of literature circulates after its initial publication in its first language. This recasting of signs and symbols that intervene in other cultures when a text is translated is one of the principal subjects of the humanistic discipline of Translation Studies, dealing with the products, functions, and processes of translation as both a cognitive and socially regulated activity. Both literary history and the history of translation benefit from this book's focus on Poe, whose translated fortune has helped to shape literary modernity, in many cases importantly redefining the target literary systems. Furthermore, we envision this book as a fountain of resources for future Poe scholars from various global sites, including the United States, since the cases of Poe's translations--both exceptional and paradigmatic--prove that they are also levers that force the reassessment of the source text in its native literature.
| ISBN-13 | 9781611461718 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1611461715 |
| Weight | 1.97 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.27 x 1.61 x 9.38 In |
| List Price | $135.00 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 464 pages |
| Publisher | Lehigh University Press |
| Published On | 2014-10-23 |
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