Overview
- Focuses on the largely unknown practice of experimental translation
- Argues for exuberant participation in literary creativity
- Sets up three experimental personae (and MOs) for the translator
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting (PTTI)
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About this book
This book celebrates experimental translation, taking a series of exploratory looks at the hypercyborg translator, the collage translator, the smuggler translator, and the heteronymous translator.
The idea isn’t to legislate traditional translations out of existence, or to “win” some kind of literary competition with the source text, but an exuberant participation in literary creativity. Turns out there are other things you can do with a great written work, and there is considerable pleasure to be had from both the doing and the reading of such things.
This book will be of interest to literary translation studies researchers, as well as scholars and practitioners of experimental creative writing and avant-garde art, postgraduate translation students and professional (literary) translators.
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“This is a thoroughly engaging book that makes a compelling argument for experimentalism in translation. It is written with masterly command of the topic, both in terms of theory and practice, and displays the highest level of scholarship. It is a refreshingly innovative contribution to the current field of translation studies and fills a gap in the scholarship regarding the recognition of experimental translation as a subject of scholarly study in its own right.” (Alexandra Lukes, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
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Book Title: The Experimental Translator
Authors: Douglas Robinson
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17941-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17940-2Published: 25 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17943-3Published: 25 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-17941-9Published: 24 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2947-5740
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5759
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 185
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Literature, general, Creative Writing, Literary History, Literary History