Angela Carter Translator and Translated

Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). She has published on Dickens, Conrad, Nabokov, Carter, Rushdie, Donoghue and Yolen, the fairy tale tradition from Antiquity to the present, and literary translation (theory, practice, reception).Marie Emilie Walz is Junior Lecturer in Comparative Literature in the English Department at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). She has delivered conference papers and published on Angela Carter’s works and their relationships with various literary and critical texts, as well as with films and music.

• Introduction: ‘You know I have [a] knack with foreign languages, pick ’em up like fleas’Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère & Marie Emilie WalzSection 1: Angela Carter’s AntiquarianismsChapter 1: Middle English, Merlin and the Medieval Worlds of Angela CarterMarie Mulvey-RobertsChapter 2: Translating Allegorical ‘Transfixion’: From Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene to Angela Carter’s The Bloody ChamberMarie Emilie WalzChapter 3: Translational Play with the Shakespearean Utterance in Angela Carter’s ‘Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream’Michelle RyanChapter 4: Translation as Creative Crossing: Angela Carter Conversing with the Victorian PastKarima ThomasSection 2: Angela Carter’s ‘Translational Poetics’Chapter 5: From the Parisian to the Cockney Venus: Angela Carter’s Acrobatic Homage to Baudelaire’s Poems in ProseMartine Hennard Dutheil de la RochèreChapter 6: ‘Perhaps so, perhaps not’: Angela Carter’s Italian ConnectionsNicoletta PiredduChapter 7: Hana, or Monster within a Flower: Carter’s Iconographic Translation of Japanese PalimpsestsNatsumi IkomaChapter 8: The Strange Visual Machines of Angela Carter: Writing Magical Images from Fireworks to American Ghosts and Old World WondersLiliane LouvelSection 3: Translating Angela Carter’s Fiction in ContextChapter 9: A ‘Garden of (Some) Forking Paths’: Angela Carter’s Translations and Resonances in the Hispanic ContextDolores Phillipps-LópezChapter 10: Translating Body-Language and Cultural Transfer: Angela Carter’s Birdwoman Cackles in HungarianAnna KérchyChapter 11: Interview with Yun ‘Jo’ Yen: Angela Carter in Chinese TranslationCaleb FerrariSection 4: The Reception of Angela Carter’s Works in Translation and TransmediationChapter 12: ‘A gold mine of imagination’ or ‘bloated nonsense’? Translations and Reception of Angela Carter’s Work in the Netherlands and GermanyAnka DraganskiChapter 13: Who’s Afraid of Angela Carter? On the Reception of Her Work in PolandMonika WoźniakChapter 14: The Musical Transpositions of Angela Carter’s Fiction: An Interview with Polly PaulusmaMarie Emilie Walz