The status of a text depends entirely upon its instrinsic merits. Translation, rewriting and the manipulation of literary fame translation studies. Buy the translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame ebook. Lefevere explores how rewriting manipulates works of literature to. Lefeveres new book has an intriguing title and a promising table of contents that divides a rather small volume into 12 different foci.
International journal of bilingual education and bilingualism, 11 6, 2008. Authored by one of the most infl uential translation theorists of the twentieth century, translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame shows how rewriting translation, anthologization, historiography. Andre lefevere, translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame, london. Manipulation in poetry translation semantic scholar. Translation as rewriting international journal of humanities and. Translation, rewriting and the manipulation of literary fame. Authored by one of the most infl uential translation theorists of the twentieth century, translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame shows how rewriting translation, anthologization, historiography, criticism. The most important and productive statements on the translation of literature from roman times to the 1920s are collected in this book. Translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame, year. Translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame andre lefevere vista previa.
New york wikipedia citation please see wikipedias template documentation for further citation fields that may be required. The contexts and modes of these manipulations are many and varied and in translation, rewriting and the manipulation of the literary fame lefevere offers. Translation, rewriting and the manipulation of literary fame translation studies 1st edition by andre lefevere, andre lefevre, andre lefevere paperback, 208 pages, published 1992. Lefevere, andre, 1992 translation, rewriting, and the. Fame, the book that could be arguably considered his major contribution to. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. A first read clarifies two things, a lefeveres theory is constructed as means for literary analysis and translation forms only part of that intent, and. Download the manipulation of literature ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub. Rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame shows how rewriting translation, anthologization, historiography, criticism, editing infl. Genettes investigation on the palimpsestic nature of literature is still useful, especially from the point of view of textual analysis.
A paradigmatic medium of international literary transfer. Firmly placing the production and reception of literature within the wider framework of a culture and its history, andre lefevere provides a revalorization of literatures social and historical. Translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame andre lefevere lefevere explores how the process of rewriting works of literature manipulates them to ideological and artistic ends, so that the rewritten text can be given a new, sometimes subversive, historical. Constructing cultures by susan bassnett, andre lefevere. In this book he shows us the importance of rewriting and the necessity for further study of the phenomenon. Lefevere illustrates that translating is just rewriting.
Andre lefevere ut college of liberal arts the university of texas. A first read clarifies two things, a lefeveres theory is constructed as means for literary analysis and translation forms only part of that intent, and b someones comment that lefevere is. Translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame andre lefevere no hay ninguna vista previa disponible 2016. He points out that culture is a complex system which is the environment of a literary system and mainly discusses the four aspects influencing translating and the four forms of rewriting. Translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame book. This is a book of articles concerning translation and written in the direction of translation studies one of the modern directions of contemporary theory of translation. Seven strategies and a blueprint and translation, rewriting and the manipulation of literary fame. Manipulative strategies in the translations of literary texts. Lefevere, andre, 1992 translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame, routledge, london, england. Translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame by. One of the first books to shine a light on the broad scope of translation studies, this routledge translation classic is widely regarded as a pillar of the discipline. He believed that translation needs to be studied in connection with power and.
Arranged thematically around the main topics which recur over the centuries power, poetics, universe of discourse, language, education it contains texts previously unavailable in english, and translated here for the first time from classical, medieval, and. Prior to his development of the concept of system, lefevere has focused on the notion and the functions of rewriting in a literary system. This is a book of articles concerning translation and written in the direction of translation studies one of the modern directions of. Dec 22, 1992 translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame book. Translation, rewriting and the manipulation of literary fame translation studies lefevere, andre on. On translation,rewriting and the manipulation of literary fame. Download pdf the manipulation of literature free online.
Translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame routledge translation classics 97818208742. Andre lefevere developed the manipulation theory in his translation, rewriting and the manipulation of literary fame, arguing that translation is, of course, a rewriting of an original text rewriting is manipulation 2004b, p. Refraction is the adaptation of a work of literature to a different audience, with the intention of influencing the way in which that audience reads the work 234235, so it corresponds to the concept of rewriting, which lefevere 1992 used in translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame. This acclaimed book by andre lefevere is available at in several formats for your ereader. Authored by one of the most infl uential translation theorists of the twentieth century, translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame shows how rewriting translation, anthologization, historiography, criticism, editing infl uences the reception and canonization of works of literature. Andre lefevere 19461996 is one of the worlds leading figures in translation studies. Sourcebook, an annotated collection of texts on translation through history. Buy translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame routledge translation classics 1 by lefevere, andre isbn. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. His most important contribution is in comparative literary studies and translation studies in particular.
Its style avoids heavy professional jargon, and the respective casestudies lying at the core of each chapter are often interesting and. Drawing upon the notions of polysystem theorists like itamar evenzohar, he theorized translation as a form of rewriting produced and read with a set of ideological and political constraints within the target language cultural system. Translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary. Authored by one of the most infl uential translation theorists of the twentieth. Welcome to econtent platform of john benjamins publishing company.
Authored by one of the most infl uential translation theorists of the twentiethcentury, translation, rewriting, and the manipulation of literary fame showshow rewriting translation, anthologization, historiography, criticism. Lefevere in the collection of essays translation, rewriting, and the. Translation, rewriting and the manipulation of literary. Translation, rewriting and the manipulation of literary fame argues that rewriting, in its various forms translation, anthologization, historiography, criticism is as least as important in establishing the reception and reputation of a work as the actual text itself. The concept translation as rewriting was put forward by lefevere. She is joint editor of the topics in translation series. Taking into account the fact that the very word ideology represents an order of. Translation rewriting and the manipulation of literary fame. Andre lefevere lefevere explores how the process of rewriting works of.
Lefevere explores how the process of rewriting works of literature manipulates them to ideological and artistic ends, so that the rewritten text can be given a new, sometimes subversive, historical or literary status. It refers to the translation studies as a direction in linguistics. According to andre lefevere, the leading representative of cultural school, translation is a rewriting or manipulation of an original text mainly influenced by three social and cultural factors, that is, ideology, dominant poetics and patronage. Firmly placing the production and reception of literature within the wider.
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