Transfer Thinking in Translation Studies
Playing with the Black Box of Cultural Transfer
Edited by Maud Gonne, Klaartje Merrigan, Reine Meylaerts, and Heleen van Gerwen
Innovative
and interdisciplinary approach to transfer
The concept of transfer covers
the most diverse phenomena of circulation, transformation and reinterpretation
of cultural goods across space and time, and are among the driving forces in
opening up the field of translation studies. Transfer processes cross
linguistic and cultural boundaries and cannot be reduced to simple movements
from a source to a target (culture or text). In a time of paradigm shifts, this
book aims to explore the potential and interdisciplinary power of transfer as a
concept and an analytical tool to account for complex cultural dynamics.
The contributions in this book adopt various research angles (literary studies, imagology, translation studies, translator studies, periodical studies, postcolonialism) to study an array of entangled transfer processes that apply to different objects and aspects, ranging from literary texts, legal texts, news, images and identities to ideologies, power asymmetries, titles and heterolingualisms. By embracing a process-oriented way of thinking, all these contributions aim to open the ‘black box’ of transfer in the widest sense.
Contributors: Susan Bassnett (University of Glasgow / University of Warwick), Pieter Boulogne (KU Leuven), Andrew Chesterman (University of Helsinki), Yves Chevrel (Sorbonne University / University Ştefan cel Mare), Dirk Delabastita (University of Namur), Yves Gambier (University of Turku), Maud Gonne (University of Namur / UCLouvain), Ramunė Kasperavičienė (Kaunas University of Technology), Dainora Maumevičienė (Kaunas University of Technology), Reine Meylaerts (KU Leuven / University of Bloemfontein), Jean-Marc Moura (University of Paris Nanterre), Isabelle Nières-Chevrel (Rennes 2 University), Christina Schäffner (Aston University), Michael Schreiber (University of Mainz), Luc van Doorslaer (University of Tartu / Stellenbosch University)
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Reclaiming the past: Translations from the Anglo-Saxon for the twenty-first century
From Britain to Brussels and back again: On the transfer of national images and linguistic interactions in Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor and its first Dutch and French translations
The figure of the translator in two Francophone African classics
Short remarks about titles: Translation, transfer… and trade
Transfer in news translation
Russian bears on the move, or how national images are transferred
Legal transfer and translation: The translation of legal and administrative texts in Flanders and Northern Italy during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic period
Language and translation policies in state-building processes: The case of Lithuania
Transfer troubles
Format: Edited volume - ebook
236 pages
ISBN: 9789461663726
Publication: November 16, 2020
Series: Translation, Interpreting and Transfer 4
Languages: English: United States
Klaartje Merrigan holds a PhD in translation studies from KU Leuven.
Maud Gonne is FNRS postdoctoral fellow in translation studies at University of Namur and UCLouvain.
Reine Meylaerts is full professor of comparative literature and translation studies at KU Leuven.