This Is a Classic illuminates the overlooked networks that contribute to the making of literary classics through the voices of multiple translators,without whom writers would have a difficult time reaching a global audience. It presents the work of some of today's most accomplished literary translators who translate classics into English or who work closely with translation in the US context and magnifies translators'knowledge,skills,creativity,and relationships with the literary texts they translate,the authors whose works they translate,and the translations they make. The volume presents translators'expertise and insight on how classics get defined according to language pairs and contexts. It advocates for careful attention to the role of translation and translators in reading choices and practices,especially regarding literary classics.
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcISBN: 9781501376900Number of pages: 352Dimensions: 216 x 140 mm
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Translation has always been about learning to understand others while finding out something vital about ourselves. Unlike other books in the field,This Is a Classic does not fall into the trap of neglecting one part of that equation to favor the other,and that is because it never loses sight of the fact that a literary classic - whatever else it is or does - teaches us to look at ourselves anew in consideration of others.This important collection aims to raise awareness of translation in mainstream academia but is equally valuable for the lay reader because,as Galasso points out in her introduction,'the classics are tools for developing writers.'With brilliant contributions from a constellation of our generation's literary rock stars,Galasso is on point in her curation of these essays which,as she points out,could just as accurately have been titled'Translators on the Making of World Literature'because without translation'literature would not have the ability to move around the globe.'"
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