
Beckett Translating/Translating Beckett
Pennsylvania State University Press
Published on 1. October 1990
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-0-271-00480-8 (ISBN)
Description
Up to now, Samuel Beckett has been considered largely as a commentator on the human condition and on the angst of our time, and as a novelist and a playwright who undermines and manipulates the metaphysical assumptions and conventions that underlie language and representation. This book offers a new perspective. The contributors, all outstanding Beckett scholars, emphasize three significant aspects of Beckett's career that have been acknowledged but given insufficient consideration. Beckett is a translator, an experimenter with form and expression in two languages simultaneously; Beckett is a multimedia creator who has worked with several kinetic, verbal, and visual possibilities and resources; Beckett has inspired experimentation and creativity in others.
Thus, translation is viewed in this book not as a secondary production, but rather as a dynamic process that involves adaptations, interpretations, transformations, and transpositions, all activities requiring strategies and techniques for transcoding on the part of the translator. The scholars represented in this book examine both what is translated and how it is translated, with the result that a new set of questions about Beckett's works is raised, and the answers point to further avenues of research.
Thus, translation is viewed in this book not as a secondary production, but rather as a dynamic process that involves adaptations, interpretations, transformations, and transpositions, all activities requiring strategies and techniques for transcoding on the part of the translator. The scholars represented in this book examine both what is translated and how it is translated, with the result that a new set of questions about Beckett's works is raised, and the answers point to further avenues of research.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
599 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-271-00480-8 (9780271004808)
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Persons
Alan Friedman, Charles Rossman, and Dina Sherzer are on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin.