Translating Style - Parks, Tim

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Résumé :
Arising from a dissatisfaction with blandly general or abstrusely theoretical approaches to translation, this book sets out to show, through detailed and lively analysis, what it really means to translate literary style. Combining linguistic and lit crit approaches, it proceeds through a series of interconnected chapters to analyse translations of the works of D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Henry Green and Barbara Pym. Each chapter thus becomes an illuminating critical essay on the author concerned, showing how divergences between original and translation tend to be of a different kind for each author depending on the nature of his or her inspiration. This new and thoroughly revised edition introduces a system of 'back translation' that now makes Tim Parks' highly-praised book reader friendly even for those with little or no Italian. An entirely new final chapter considers the profound effects that globalization and the search for an immediate international readership is having on both literary translation and literature itself....

Biographie:
These are the things that Tim Parks is: A Son. A Brother. An Uncle. A Pop Culture Savant. A Friend. A Dog Dad. A Cancer Survivor. A Proud Father of Two Novels. An Award-winning Author and Lambda Literary Award Nominee, A Finalist for The Beverly Hills Book Awards, who also received Honorable Mentions from The Los Angeles and San Francisco Book Awards. He is also a Freelance Writer For 23 Years, starting with The Gay and Lesbian Times, Gay San Diego and now for The Rage Monthly. Additionally, he has contributed to the websites Digital Spy, After Elton, reFresh, and more recently, Pop Trash Museum. He's also been a columnist of 18 Years, beginning with Gaywatch, That's Entertainment and Hollywood, which runs in The Rage Monthly. You can follow him @timstagram69_ on Instagram and his Tim Parks Author page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/timparkstheschemeofthings and on Amazon.com at www.amazon.com/stores/Tim-Parks/author...

Sommaire:

Author's Note to the New Edition

Chapter 1. Identifying an Original

Chapter 2. Translating the 'Unhousedness' of Women in Love

Chapter 3. Translating the Evocative Spirit in James Joyce

Chapter 4. Translating the Smoke Words of Mrs Dalloway

Chapter 5. Translating the Matter of Samuel Beckett's Manner

Chapter 6. Barbara Pym and the Untranslatable Commonplace

Chapter 7. On the Borders of Comprehensibility: The Challenge of Henry Green

Chapter 8. Translating Individualism: Literature and Globalization