Translation and Geography
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge
Published: 2016
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781138828919
Subjects: Translating and interpreting; Language and culture; Intercultural communication; Literature, modern, history and criticism
Description: Groundbreaking in its approach and relevant across a range of disciplines from translation studies and comparative literature to geography and history, this book makes a compelling case for a form of cultural translation that reframes the contributions of language-based translation analysis. Focusing on the different yet intertwined translation processes involved in the development of the Western spatial imaginary, Federico Italiano examines a series of literary works and their translations across languages, media, and epochs, encompassing: poems, travel narratives, nautical fictions, colonial discourse, exilic visions. Drawing on case studies and readings ranging from the Latin of the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Latin American poetry, this is key reading for translation theory and comparative/world literature courses. --