Brian James Baer is Professor of Translation Studies at Kent State University. He is author of Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature (2016) and editor of several collected volumes. He is founding editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies and co-editor of the series Literatures, Cultures, Translation.Susanna Witt is Associate Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Senior Lecturer in Russian at the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages, Finnish, Dutch and German, Stockholm University, Sweden. She is the author of Creating Creation: Readings of Pasternak’s Doktor Zhivago (2000) and numerous articles on modern Russian literature and topics of Russian translation history.

• Introduction: The Double Context of Translation Brian James Baer and Susanna Witt PART I. Pre-Soviet Contexts1. Translation Strategies in Medieval Hagiography: Observations on the Slavic Reception of the Byzantine Vita of Saint OnuphriusKarine Åkerman-Sarkisian2. Metatext Verbalization in Early and Modern Russian Translations Tatiana Pentkovskaya and Anastasia Urzha3. "The Mother of all the Sciences and Arts": Academic Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Russia as Cultural TransferKåre Johan Mjør4. Translation as Appropriation: The Russian Operatic Repertoire in the Eighteenth CenturyAnna Giust5. Eighteenth- Century Russian Women Translators in the History of Russian Women’s Writing Olga Demidova6. Expressing the Other, Translating the Self: Ivan Kozlov’s Translation Genres Yulia Tikhomirova7. Charles Dickens in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Literary Reputation and Transformations of Style Marina Kostionova8. Translation as Experiment: Ivan Aksenov’s Pan Tadeusz (1916) Lars KlebergPART II. Soviet Contexts9. Translation and Transnationalism: Non-European Writers and Soviet Power in the 1920s and 1930s Katerina Clark10. Hemingway’s Transformations in Soviet Russia: On the Translation of For Whom the Bell Tolls by Natalia Volzhina and Evgeniia KalashnikovaEkaterina Kuznetsova11. Soviet "Folklore" as a Translation Project: The Case of Tvorchestvo narodov SSSRElena Zemskova12. Western Monsters – Soviet Pets? Translation and Transculturalism in Soviet Children’s Literature Valerii Viugin13. "The Good Are Always the Merry": British Children’s Literature in Soviet Russia Alexsandra Borisenko14. "The Tenth Muse": Reconceptualizing Poetry Translation in the Soviet EraMaria Khotimsky15. Translating the Other, Confronting the Self: Soviet Poet Boris Slutskii’s Translations of Bertolt Brecht Katharine Hodgson PART III. Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Contexts16. (Re)translation, Ideology and Business: The Fate of Translated Adventure Fiction in Russia before and after 1991Piet Van Poucke 17. "Adieu, Remember Me": The Hamlet Canon in Post-Soviet Russia Aleksei Semenenko 18. Poetic Translation and the Canon: the Case of the Russian Auden Elena Ostrovskaya19. Literary Translation, Queer Discourses, and Cultural Transformation: Mogutin Translating/Translating Mogutin Vitaly Chernetsky20. Battling over the Exception: A Stateless "Russian" Writer and His Translation in Today’s Estonia Daniele Monticelli and Eneken Laanes

Brian James Baer is Professor of Translation Studies at Kent State University. He is author of Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature (2016) and editor of several collected volumes. He is founding editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies and co-editor of the series Literatures, Cultures, Translation.Susanna Witt is Associate Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Senior Lecturer in Russian at the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages, Finnish, Dutch and German, Stockholm University, Sweden. She is the author of Creating Creation: Readings of Pasternak’s Doktor Zhivago (2000) and numerous articles on modern Russian literature and topics of Russian translation history.

• Introduction: The Double Context of Translation Brian James Baer and Susanna Witt PART I. Pre-Soviet Contexts1. Translation Strategies in Medieval Hagiography: Observations on the Slavic Reception of the Byzantine Vita of Saint OnuphriusKarine Åkerman-Sarkisian2. Metatext Verbalization in Early and Modern Russian Translations Tatiana Pentkovskaya and Anastasia Urzha3. "The Mother of all the Sciences and Arts": Academic Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Russia as Cultural TransferKåre Johan Mjør4. Translation as Appropriation: The Russian Operatic Repertoire in the Eighteenth CenturyAnna Giust5. Eighteenth- Century Russian Women Translators in the History of Russian Women’s Writing Olga Demidova6. Expressing the Other, Translating the Self: Ivan Kozlov’s Translation Genres Yulia Tikhomirova7. Charles Dickens in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Literary Reputation and Transformations of Style Marina Kostionova8. Translation as Experiment: Ivan Aksenov’s Pan Tadeusz (1916) Lars KlebergPART II. Soviet Contexts9. Translation and Transnationalism: Non-European Writers and Soviet Power in the 1920s and 1930s Katerina Clark10. Hemingway’s Transformations in Soviet Russia: On the Translation of For Whom the Bell Tolls by Natalia Volzhina and Evgeniia KalashnikovaEkaterina Kuznetsova11. Soviet "Folklore" as a Translation Project: The Case of Tvorchestvo narodov SSSRElena Zemskova12. Western Monsters – Soviet Pets? Translation and Transculturalism in Soviet Children’s Literature Valerii Viugin13. "The Good Are Always the Merry": British Children’s Literature in Soviet Russia Alexsandra Borisenko14. "The Tenth Muse": Reconceptualizing Poetry Translation in the Soviet EraMaria Khotimsky15. Translating the Other, Confronting the Self: Soviet Poet Boris Slutskii’s Translations of Bertolt Brecht Katharine Hodgson PART III. Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Contexts16. (Re)translation, Ideology and Business: The Fate of Translated Adventure Fiction in Russia before and after 1991Piet Van Poucke 17. "Adieu, Remember Me": The Hamlet Canon in Post-Soviet Russia Aleksei Semenenko 18. Poetic Translation and the Canon: the Case of the Russian Auden Elena Ostrovskaya19. Literary Translation, Queer Discourses, and Cultural Transformation: Mogutin Translating/Translating Mogutin Vitaly Chernetsky20. Battling over the Exception: A Stateless "Russian" Writer and His Translation in Today’s Estonia Daniele Monticelli and Eneken Laanes

Brian James Baer is Professor of Translation Studies at Kent State University. He is author of Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature (2016) and editor of several collected volumes. He is founding editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies and co-editor of the series Literatures, Cultures, Translation.Susanna Witt is Associate Professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Senior Lecturer in Russian at the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages, Finnish, Dutch and German, Stockholm University, Sweden. She is the author of Creating Creation: Readings of Pasternak’s Doktor Zhivago (2000) and numerous articles on modern Russian literature and topics of Russian translation history.

• Introduction: The Double Context of Translation Brian James Baer and Susanna Witt PART I. Pre-Soviet Contexts1. Translation Strategies in Medieval Hagiography: Observations on the Slavic Reception of the Byzantine Vita of Saint OnuphriusKarine Åkerman-Sarkisian2. Metatext Verbalization in Early and Modern Russian Translations Tatiana Pentkovskaya and Anastasia Urzha3. "The Mother of all the Sciences and Arts": Academic Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Russia as Cultural TransferKåre Johan Mjør4. Translation as Appropriation: The Russian Operatic Repertoire in the Eighteenth CenturyAnna Giust5. Eighteenth- Century Russian Women Translators in the History of Russian Women’s Writing Olga Demidova6. Expressing the Other, Translating the Self: Ivan Kozlov’s Translation Genres Yulia Tikhomirova7. Charles Dickens in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Literary Reputation and Transformations of Style Marina Kostionova8. Translation as Experiment: Ivan Aksenov’s Pan Tadeusz (1916) Lars KlebergPART II. Soviet Contexts9. Translation and Transnationalism: Non-European Writers and Soviet Power in the 1920s and 1930s Katerina Clark10. Hemingway’s Transformations in Soviet Russia: On the Translation of For Whom the Bell Tolls by Natalia Volzhina and Evgeniia KalashnikovaEkaterina Kuznetsova11. Soviet "Folklore" as a Translation Project: The Case of Tvorchestvo narodov SSSRElena Zemskova12. Western Monsters – Soviet Pets? Translation and Transculturalism in Soviet Children’s Literature Valerii Viugin13. "The Good Are Always the Merry": British Children’s Literature in Soviet Russia Alexsandra Borisenko14. "The Tenth Muse": Reconceptualizing Poetry Translation in the Soviet EraMaria Khotimsky15. Translating the Other, Confronting the Self: Soviet Poet Boris Slutskii’s Translations of Bertolt Brecht Katharine Hodgson PART III. Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Contexts16. (Re)translation, Ideology and Business: The Fate of Translated Adventure Fiction in Russia before and after 1991Piet Van Poucke 17. "Adieu, Remember Me": The Hamlet Canon in Post-Soviet Russia Aleksei Semenenko 18. Poetic Translation and the Canon: the Case of the Russian Auden Elena Ostrovskaya19. Literary Translation, Queer Discourses, and Cultural Transformation: Mogutin Translating/Translating Mogutin Vitaly Chernetsky20. Battling over the Exception: A Stateless "Russian" Writer and His Translation in Today’s Estonia Daniele Monticelli and Eneken Laanes