Words, Images and Performances in Translation
Published on 2. February 2012
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-4411-6596-1 (ISBN)
Description
This title looks at the important role translation studies plays in exploring how words, sounds and images are translated and reinterpreted in new socio-cultural contexts. This volume presents fresh approaches to the role that translation - in its many forms - plays in enabling and mediating global cultural exchange. As modes of communication and textual production continue to evolve, the field of translation studies has an increasingly important role in exploring the ways in which words, sounds and images are translated and reinterpreted in new socio-cultural contexts. The book includes an innovative mix of literary, cultural and intersemiotic perspectives and represents a wide range of languages and cultures. The contributions are all linked by a shared focus on the place of translation in the contemporary world, and the ways in which translation, and the discipline of translation studies, can shed light on questions of inter- and hypertextuality, multimodality and new media in contemporary cultural production.
Published in association with the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS), "Continuum Studies in Translation" aims to present a series of books focused around central issues in translation and interpreting. Using case studies drawn from a wide range of different countries and languages, each book presents a comprehensive examination of current areas of research within translation studies written by academics at the forefront of the field. The thought-provoking books in this series are aimed at advanced students and researchers of translation studies.
Published in association with the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS), "Continuum Studies in Translation" aims to present a series of books focused around central issues in translation and interpreting. Using case studies drawn from a wide range of different countries and languages, each book presents a comprehensive examination of current areas of research within translation studies written by academics at the forefront of the field. The thought-provoking books in this series are aimed at advanced students and researchers of translation studies.
Reviews / Votes
This collection comprises a lucid and engaging discussion of all the ways translators may (or perhaps necessarily must) "nudge", "tickle" or even "sabotage" a source text. Wilson and Maher have brought together a diverse group of researchers who each creatively challenge the dominion of the original, question the directionality of global cultural flows, and above all highlight the many complexities to be negotiated. Translation, rightly conceived of as a means of both underscoring and eliding difference, is presented here as a form of mediation that serves a deep hermeneutic purpose while offering scope for "play", "replay" and "interplay". The notion of text is helpfully given the broadest possible definition: with examples drawn from print ads to football to theatrical performance, these essays delve insightfully into the international circulation of various cultural products. A worthy addition to the Translation Studies library. -- Valerie Henitiuk, Director, British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia, UK In line with the relentless, positive expansion of the boundaries of Translation Studies, this book explores the infinite possibilities of translation as intersemiotic transfer, with reference to mature and new art forms ranging from advertising and cinema to journalism and contemporary theatre. All contributions offer original viewpoints and reflections, bringing forth new forms of textuality and, most significantly, new concepts of translation. The latter actually loses shape in this book, to be reborn under new guises: transcoding, transduction, guerrilla translation, translingual narratives, performing translation are but some of the expressions used by the contributors to this book to highlight the creative potential of translingual, transcultural activities, as well as their contribution to the (re-)shaping of power relations and cultural interactions. This book offers a variety of stimuli to scholars and students interested in exploring some of the most innovative and productive paths in translation research. -- Elena Di Giovanni, Lecturer in English Language and Translation, University of Macerata, ItalyMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
515 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-6596-1 (9781441165961)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Rita Wilson | Brigid Maher
Words, Images and Performances in Translation
E-Book
12/2011
1st Edition
Continuum Publishing Corporation
€47.49
Available for download
Persons
Brigid Maher teaches Italian language, culture and translation at La Trobe University, Australia. Rita Wilson is Associate Professor and Convenor of the Translation and Interpreting Studies Program at Monash University, Australia.
Content
List of figures and tables; Acknowledgments; Notes on contributors; Introduction: transforming image and text, performing translation, Rita Wilson and Brigid Maher; 1. Translating an artwork: words and images in Brett Whiteley's Remembering Lao-Tse, Margherita Zanoletti; 2. Biographical resonances in the translation work of Florbela Espanca, Chris Gerry. 3. Mediating the clash of cultures through translingual narrative, Rita Wilson; 4. Theatre translation for performance: conflict of interests, conflict of cultures, Geraldine Brodie; 5. The Gull: intercultural Noh as webwork, Beverley Curran; 6. The journalist, the translator, the player and his agent: games of (mis)representation and (mis)translation in British media reports about non-Anglophone football players, Roger Baines; 7. Drawing blood: translation, mediation and conflict in Joe Sacco's comics journalism, Brigid Maher; 8. Silenced images: the case of Viva Zapatero!, Federico M. Federici; 9. How do 'man' and 'woman' translate? Gender images across Italian, British and American print ads, Ira Torresi; 10. Translating place: The Piano from screen to tourist brochure, Alfio Leotta; 11. Bad-talk: media piracy and 'guerrilla' translation, Tessa Dwyer; Index.