| Retranslation Through the Centuries: Jules Verne in English Contributor(s): Díaz Cintas, Jorge (Editor), O'Driscoll, Kieran (Author) |
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ISBN: 3034302363 ISBN-13: 9783034302364 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $78.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines - Literary Criticism | European - French - Foreign Language Study | French |
| Dewey: 843.8 |
| LCCN: 2011012660 |
| Series: New Trends in Translation Studies |
| Physical Information: 286 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Making a contribution to the still under-researched translation history of Verne's Extraordinary Journeys, this book examines the causes of a selection of renderings from French into English of the 1873 Jules Verne novel Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the World in Eighty Days). This study integrates a number of methodologies in order to offer a comprehensive explanation of translation outcomes. It presents a diachronic investigation of the multiple interacting translation causes which have produced various retranslations of the same work. A corpus of target texts, from 1873 to 2004, is analysed in order to discover the translation strategies employed and their likely causes using Pym's (1998) model of the four Aristotelian causes of social phenomena, as applied to translation. Translators' biographical details are studied to ascertain the agency of the translator. The book addresses the difficulties encountered in uncovering biographical information on certain translators, and the considerations involved in selecting a suitable corpus of retranslated texts. It provides some understanding of the reasons for which retranslations of a canonical novel are undertaken and contributes to arguments concerning translation universals. |
