The Translator in the Text: On Reading Russian Literature in English

The Translator in the Text: On Reading Russian Literature in English
ISBN-10
0810111586
ISBN-13
9780810111585
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
223
Language
English
Published
1994-11-23
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Author
Rachel May

Description

What does it mean to read one nation's literature in another language? The considerable popularity of Russian literature in the English-speaking world rests almost entirely upon translations. In The Translator and the Text, Rachel May analyzes Russian literature in English translation, seeing it less as a substitute for the original works than as a subset of English literature, with its own cultural, stylistic, and narrative traditions.

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