
Recreation and Style
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- Recreation and Style
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Humorous style and translation
- Making sense of humour
- The translation of humour
- Interdisciplinarity and diversity
- The case studies
- Creation and recreation
- Chapter 2. Outrageous fortune in the lucky country
- Displacement and disjunction
- Finding a space in English
- Exaggerated bodies
- Views and reviews
- The contextual and paratextual spaces of translation
- Chapter 3. Playing for laughs
- Setting the scene: The political and cultural context
- Voice and characterization
- Irony, farcical logic and physical comedy
- Translation and adaptation
- Accidental Death's afterlife in translation
- Chapter 4. Self-styled Wilde behaviour
- Imitation and explicitation
- Self's parody
- Will Self translate? Intertextual and paratextual matters
- Artifice and artificiality
- Puns in the oven
- Understatement and contradiction
- Extra intertextuality
- Translating transgression
- Chapter 5. Apples and (clockwork) oranges
- Nadsat all'italiana
- Nadsat and the reader's attitude
- Funny-peculiar and funny-ha-ha
- 'Disjunctive poetics' and dramatic irony
- Metaphors of violence
- Language, poetics and ideology
- Chapter 6. First person
- Voice and narrative style
- Location, location, location
- Food, sexuality and taboo
- The laughter and tears of migration
- Perceptions and reception
- Chapter 7. Translation as recreation
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
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