Translation and the making of modern Russian literature
By: Brian James Baer
Series: Literatures, cultures, translation; Literatures, cultures, translation
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781628927993; 9781628927986
Subjects: Translations into Russian; Russian literature; Translating and interpreting; History and criticism; Translations; European literature; Translators in literature; National characteristics, Russian, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-206) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction :Born in translation; title: Reading between, reading among: poet-translators in the age of the Decembrists; title: The translator as forger: (Mis)translating empire in Lermontov's Hero of Our Time and Roziner's A Certain Finkelmeyer; title: The boy who cried "Volk"!: (Mis)translating the nation in Dostoevsky's "Peasant Marei" and Iskander's "Pshada"; title: Refiguring translation: translator-heroines in Russian women's writing; title: Imitatio: translation and the making of Soviet subjects; title: Reading Wilde in Moscow, or le plus ça change: translations of Western gay literature in post-Soviet Russia; title: Unpacking Daniel Stein, or where post-Soviet meets postmodern.