"The other" in translation
Subtitle: a case for comparative translation studies
By: Alexander Burak
Publisher: Slavica
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bloomington, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780893574154
Subjects: Translating and interpreting; Methodology; Case studies; Intercultural communication; Discourse analysis; Russian language; Translating into English; English language; Translating into Russian
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: The "Americanization" of Russian life and literature through translations of Hemingway's works: establishing a Russian "Amerikanskii" substyle in Russian literature; title: a case study of two "Kashkintsy" translations of Hemingway; title: Some like it hot; title: "goblin-style": ozhivliazh (sexing things up) in Russian film translations; title: a case study of two voiceover translations into Russian of The sopranos series; title: Translating skaz as a whole-text realium: five modes of translation (Russian-to-English); title: a case study of Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation fo the parable about two merchants told by Platon Karataev in Tolstoy's War and peace; title: Translating skaz as a whole-text realium: from skaz to swaggering pizzazz (English to Russian); title: a case study of three translations into Russian of J.D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye; title: Translating postmodernism: a translator's modus operandi; title: a case study of Vladimir Sorokin's Day of the oprichnik; title: Translation as a political weapon: having a riot translating "Pussy Riot"; title: a case study of the suggestiv translations of the name of the punk band Pussy Riot in the Russian media; title: Russian translation theory: some ongoing discussions; title: Negotiating multiculturalism; title: a brief assessment of the role of literary translation in the context of globalization, internationalization, and multiculturalism.