Collaborative Translation

Anthony Cordingley is Associate Professor at the Université Paris 8, France, on secondment to the University of Sydney, Australia as ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow.Céline Frigau Manning is Associate Professor at the Université Paris 8, member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

• Notes on Contributors1. What is collaborative translation?, Anthony Cordingley and Céline Frigau Manning Part I: Reconceptualizing the translator : Renaissance and Enlightenment perspectives 2. On the incorrect way to translate: The absence of collaborative translation from Leonardo Bruni’s De interpretatione recta, Belén Bistué 3. Towards a practice-theory of translation: on our translations of Savonarole, Machiavel, Guichardin and their effects, Jean-Louis Fournel and Jean-Claude Zancarini 4. “Shared” Translation: the Example of Forty Comedies by Goldoni in France (1993-1994), Françoise Decroisette Part II: Collaborating with the author5. Author-translator collaborations: a typological survey, Patrick Hersant6. Vladimir Nabokov and his translators: collaboration or translating under duress, Olga Anokhina 7. Günter Grass and his translators: from a collaborative dynamic to a controlling apparatus?, Céline Letawe 8. Contemporary poetry and transatlantic poetics at the Royaumont Translation Seminars (1983-2000): an experimental language laboratory, Abigail LangPart III: Environments of collaboration9. Online multilingual collaboration: Haruki Murakami’s European translators, Ika Kaminka and Anna Zielinska-Elliott 10. Translation crowdsourcing: research trends and perspectives, Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo11. The role of institutional collaborations in contexts of official bilingualism: The Canadian example, Gillian Lane-Mercier 12. A new ecology for translation? Collaboration and resilience, Michael CroninIndex

Presents insightful case studies elaborating on various forms of collaborative translation, and includes detailed lists of references directing further reading. The scope of this book, ranging from the Renaissance to the digital age, provides the reader with an efficient exploration of the topic ... This book invites readers to think about the potential perspectives with which one can approach detailed case studies, and raises important questions.