Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Writing Forward

Translation, Performance, Creativity

Av Susan Bassnett, Piotr Blumczynski

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This collection of essays by a team of internationally respected researchers at the cutting edge of translation studies was inspired by the idea of “writing forward” as a strategy for theatre translation proposed by David Johnston, the award-winning translator and scholar.Opening this volume is a conversation between David Johnston and Lawrence Venuti in which they explore a broad range of topics that bear on the translation of theatrical texts for performance. The chapters that follow are grouped into three main parts.Part I, “Extending translation”, contains essays whose respective theoretical emphases test, push, and stretch traditional conceptual boundaries.Part II, “Translating for theatre”, zooms in on various aspects of theatre translation.Part III, “Translation and creativity”, shifts the focus beyond the stage to other forms of artistic expression: poetry, painting, film, and television.Finally, in the short play Noli me tangere, written especially for this volume, Juan Mayorga reflects on theatre as the art of distance and on the mysteriousness of translation as the art of negotiating that distance.Thinking about and practicing translation as “writing forward” underscores its perpetual provisionality and hermeneutic openness; its ability to surprise and stimulate but also remind and reassure. By enriching our understanding of translation, performance, and creativity, this volume will no doubt inspire further explorations into their fascinating complexities. Useful and important reading for advanced students and researchers of literature, theatre, culture, and translation.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2025-06-18
Mått: 156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt: 400 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 234
Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9781032900667

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Susan Bassnett is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow. She has published widely on aspects of translation, and her ground-breaking book Translation Studies is used across the world. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Institute of Linguists, the Academia Europaea, and is President of the British Comparative Literature Association.Piotr Blumczynski is a Professor of Translation and Intercultural Studies, and Director of the Centre for Translation and Interpreting at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of Ubiquitous Translation (2016) and Experiencing Translationality (2023), and co-editor of Translating Values (2016) and The Languages of COVID-19 (2022). He is the Editor-in-chief of the journal Translation Studies.

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“Leaping forward into emotion, these essays evoke the formidable effects of translation in performance. The often lyrical contributions tap into the drama of theatre, at the same time proposing new rhythms of exploration in translation scholarship. This is a beautiful collection, a fitting tribute to the esteemed theatre translator, David Johnston.” – Sherry Simon, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; author or Translation sites (Routledge 2019)“Rarely does academic writing about translation send a shiver down the spine. These essays, inspired by David Johnston’s ‘writing forward’, sing with true duende as they probe the complex process of translating the past for a present that has the life of single and singular performances.” – Peter Bush, literary translator, Bristol, UK; recent translation: The Lily in the Valley by Honoré de Balzac

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