Perspectives on Literature and Translation

This volume explores the relationship between literature and translation from three perspectives: the creative dimensions of the translation process; the way texts circulate between languages; and the way texts are received in translation by new audiences. The distinctiveness of the volume lies in the fact that it considers these fundamental aspects of literary translation together and in terms of their interconnections. Contributors examine a wide variety of texts, including world classics, poetry, genre fiction, transnational literature, and life writing from around the world. Both theoretical and empirical issues are covered, with some contributors approaching the topic as practitioners of literary translation, and others writing from within the academy.

Introduction Brian Nelson and Brigid Maher Part 1: Creation: Literature and Translation in the Looking Glass 1. The Art of Hearing the Voice Julie Rose 2. Memory, War and Translation: Mercè Rodoreda's In Diamond Square Peter Bush 3. Szymek from the Village and Joe from Missouri: Problems of Voice in Translating Wies aw My liwski's Stone Upon Stone Bill Johnston 4. Understanding Through Translation: Rilke's New Poems Luke Fischer 5. Cesare De Marchi and the Author-Translator Dilemma Luigi Gussago Part 2: Circulation: Texts and Their Transmission 6. Inculturation as Elephant: On Translation and the Spread of Literary Modernity Anthony Pym 7. Rainer Maria Rilke in Lucian Blaga's Translations from English Sean Cotter 8. Rabindranath Tagore and 'World Literature' Mridula Nath Chakraborty 9. Buzzati's French Connection: Translation as a Catalyst in a Literary Career Felix Siddell 10. A Crook's Tour: Translation, Pseudotranslation and Foreignness in Anglo-Italian Crime Fiction Brigid Maher Part 3: Reception: Texts and Their Readers 11. Of Migrants and Working Men: How Pietro di Donato's Christ in Concrete Travelled Between the US and Italy Through Translation Loredana Polezzi 12. Terra Australis Incognita Even Now? The Reception of Australian Literature in Italian Translation Rita Wilson 13. Prizing Translation: Book Awards and Literary Translation Sally-Ann Spencer 14. Footnotes sans Frontières: Translation and Textual Scholarship Esther Allen