The Oxford guide to literature in English translation / editor, Peter France.

Contributor(s): France, Peter, 1935-.

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BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001Description: xxii,656p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9780199247844.Other title: Literature in English translation.Subject(s): Literature -- History and criticism

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Translation has been a crucial process in world culture over the past two millennia and more. In the English-speaking cultures many of the most important texts are translations, from Homer to Beckett, the Bible to Freud. Although recent years have seen a boom in translation studies, there has been no comprehensive yet convenient guide to this essential element of literature in English.Written by eminent scholars from many countries, the Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation meets this need and will be essential reading for all students of English and comparative literature. It highlights the place of translation in our culture, encouraging awareness of the issues raised, making the translator more 'visible'. Concentrating on major writers and works, it covers translations out of many languages, from Greek to Korean, from Swahili to Russian. For some works (e.g. Virgil's Aeneid) which have been much translated, the discussion is historical and critical, showing how translation has evolved over the centuries and bringing out the differences between versions. Elsewhere, with less familiar literatures, the Guide examines the extent to which translation has done justice to the range of work available.The Guide is divided into two parts. Part I contains substantial essays on theoretical questions, a pioneering outline of the history of translation into English, and discussions of the problems raised by specific types of text (e.g. poetry, oral literature). The second, much longer, part consists of entries grouped by language of origin; some are devoted to individual texts (e.g. the Thousand and One Nights) or writers (e.g. Ibsen, Proust), but the majority offer a critical overview of a genre (e.g. Chinese poetry, Spanish Golden Age drama) or of a national literature (e.g. Hungarian, Scottish Gaelic). There is a selective bibliography for each entry and an index of authors and translators.

Originally published: 2000.

With bibliographical details and index.

Written by a team of experts from many countries, this book provides a comprehensive account of the ways in which translation has brought the major literature of the world into English-speaking culture.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Advice to Readers (p. xi)
Further Reading (p. xiii)
Contributors (p. xv)
Introduction (p. xix)
Part I Theory and History
a. Theoretical Issues (p. 3)
1. Translation Studies and Translation Criticism (p. 3)
2. Norms of Translation (p. 10)
3. The Limits of Translation (p. 15)
4. Linguistic Perspectives on Translation (p. 20)
5. Gender in Translation (p. 26)
6. Varieties of English (p. 34)
b. Historical Development (p. 39)
1. The Middle Ages (p. 39)
2. The Renaissance (p. 45)
3. Neoclassicism and Enlightenment (p. 55)
4. Romanticism and the Victorian Age (p. 64)
5. Late Victorian to the Present (p. 73)
6. Translation in North America (p. 81)
c. Text Types (p. 89)
1. Poetry (p. 89)
2. Theatre and Opera (p. 96)
3. Sacred Texts (p. 103)
4. Children's Literature (p. 107)
5. Oral Literature (p. 112)
References for Part I (p. 116)
Part II Translated Literature
a. African Languages (p. 127)
1. Introduction (p. 127)
2. East African Languages (p. 129)
3. West African Languages (p. 132)
4. Languages of South Africa (p. 134)
5. Afrikaans (p. 136)
b. Arabic (p. 139)
1. Introduction (p. 139)
2. The Koran (p. 141)
3. The Mu 'allaqat (p. 145)
4. The Muqaddimah (p. 147)
5. The Thousand and One Nights (p. 149)
6. Modern Literature (p. 152)
7. Naguib Mahfouz (p. 157)
c. The Bible (p. 159)
1. The Bible in English (p. 159)
2. The Authorized Version and English Literature (p. 170)
d. Celtic Languages (p. 173)
1. Introduction (p. 173)
2. Early Irish/Gaelic (p. 175)
3. Medieval Welsh (p. 178)
4. Scottish Gaelic (p. 181)
5. Modern Irish (Gaelic) (p. 184)
6. Modern Welsh (p. 187)
e. Central and East European Languages (p. 190)
1. Armenian (p. 190)
2. Bulgarian (p. 193)
3. Czech and Slovak (p. 196)
4. Georgian (p. 200)
5. Hungarian (p. 202)
6. Polish Poetry (p. 206)
7. Polish Fiction (p. 210)
8. Polish Drama (p. 212)
9. Romanian (p. 214)
10. Serbo-Croat (p. 217)
11. Ukrainian (p. 219)
f. East Asian Languages (p. 222)
1. Chinese: Introduction (p. 222)
2. Chinese Poetry (p. 224)
3. Chinese Prose (p. 228)
4. Chinese Fiction (p. 232)
5. Japanese: Introduction (p. 236)
6. Japanese Poetry (p. 237)
7. Japanese Fiction (p. 241)
8. Japanese Drama (p. 245)
9. Korean (p. 249)
g. French (p. 251)
1. Introduction (p. 251)
2. Troubadours and Trouveres (p. 253)
3. Medieval Literature (p. 255)
4. Poetry 1450-1620 (p. 257)
5. Renaissance Prose: Rabelais and Montaigne (p. 260)
6. Classical Drama (p. 263)
7. La Fontaine (p. 269)
8. Thinkers 1630-1780 (p. 270)
9. Nineteenth-Century Fiction (p. 275)
10. Poetry since Hugo (p. 281)
11. Baudelaire (p. 285)
12. Twentieth-Century Fiction (p. 287)
13. Proust (p. 292)
14. Beckett (p. 294)
15. Twentieth-Century Thinkers (p. 296)
16. Francophone Writing outside France (p. 300)
h. German (p. 305)
1. Introduction (p. 305)
2. Medieval Literature (p. 306)
3. Poetry 1750-1850 (p. 309)
4. Drama 1770-1850 (p. 313)
5. Goethe (p. 315)
6. Heine (p. 319)
7. Kant, Hegel, and Romantic Philosophy (p. 321)
8. Marx (p. 325)
9. Nietzsche (p. 327)
10. Freud (p. 329)
11. Fiction: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century (p. 331)
12. Drama since 1880 (p. 337)
13. Poetry since 1850 (p. 342)
14. Rilke (p. 346)
i. Greek (p. 348)
1. Introduction (p. 348)
2. Homer and Other Epics (p. 350)
3. Aeschylus (p. 356)
4. Sophocles (p. 360)
5. Euripides (p. 363)
6. Aristophanes (p. 367)
7. Lyric, Pastoral, and Epigram (p. 370)
8. Classical Philosophy (p. 375)
9. Attic Oratory (p. 380)
10. History (p. 383)
11. Biography, Fiction, and Other Prose (p. 385)
12. Modern Greek (p. 391)
j. Hebrew and Yiddish (p. 395)
1. Hebrew (p. 395)
2. Yiddish (p. 402)
k. Hispanic Languages (p. 405)
1. Introduction (p. 405)
2. Medieval Spanish Literature (p. 406)
3. Spanish Poetry: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century (p. 410)
4. Spanish Golden Age Drama (p. 413)
5. Cervantes (p. 418)
6. Picaresque Novels (p. 421)
7. Spanish Poetry: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century (p. 423)
8. Spanish Prose: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century (p. 425)
9. Twentieth-Century Spanish Drama (p. 428)
10. Latin American Poetry in Spanish (p. 430)
11. Latin American Fiction in Spanish (p. 433)
12. Catalan Literature (p. 437)
13. Camoes (p. 439)
14. Modern Portuguese Literature (p. 441)
15. Brazilian Literature (p. 443)
l. Indian Languages (p. 447)
1. Introduction (p. 447)
2. Sanskrit (p. 449)
3. Classical Tamil (p. 455)
4. Medieval Devotional Writing (p. 457)
5. Modern Indian Languages (p. 459)
m. Italian (p. 467)
1. Introduction (p. 467)
2. Dante (p. 469)
3. Boccaccio (p. 473)
4. Early Lyric Poetry (p. 474)
5. Epic and Romance: Pulci and Boiardo (p. 478)
6. Epic and Romance: Ariosto (p. 480)
7. Epic and Romance: Tasso (p. 482)
8. Renaissance Prose (p. 484)
9. Drama since Goldoni (p. 486)
10. Leopardi (p. 488)
11. Nineteenth-Century Prose (p. 490)
12. Pirandello (p. 492)
13. Twentieth-Century Poetry (p. 494)
14. Twentieth-Century Prose (p. 498)
n. Latin (p. 503)
1. Introduction (p. 503)
2. Lucretius (p. 505)
3. Virgil (p. 507)
4. Lyric Poetry (p. 513)
5. Horace (p. 516)
6. Ovid (p. 519)
7. Satire and Epigram (p. 523)
8. Silver Epic (p. 528)
9. Drama (p. 531)
10. History (p. 535)
11. Prose Authors (p. 539)
12. Late Latin and Postclassical Latin (p. 544)
o. Northern European Languages (p. 551)
1. Old English (p. 551)
2. Old Norse/Icelandic (p. 553)
3. The Kalevala (p. 556)
4. Danish (p. 558)
5. Dutch (p. 562)
6. Finnish and Finland-Swedish (p. 566)
7. Icelandic (p. 571)
8. Norwegian (p. 572)
9. Ibsen (p. 575)
10. Swedish (p. 578)
11. Strindberg (p. 580)
p. Russian (p. 582)
1. Introduction (p. 582)
2. Pushkin (p. 583)
3. Nineteenth-Century Fiction (p. 586)
4. Tolstoy (p. 592)
5. Dostoevsky (p. 594)
6. Chekhov (p. 598)
7. Twentieth-Century Poetry (p. 601)
8. Twentieth-Century Fiction (p. 605)
q. West Asian Languages (p. 610)
1. Ancient Mesopotamian Literature (p. 610)
2. Classical Persian (p. 611)
3. Modern Persian (p. 615)
4. Turkish (p. 619)
Index (p. 625)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Library Journal Review

This new Oxford guide emphasizes "high-culture" books in translation that have had the most lasting impact on English-speaking culture since the Middle Ages. The largely U.K./U.S. roster of academic contributors provides translation histories and very helpful judgments about which translations are best and most reliable. Early translators of Dostoevsky, for example, smoothed out his often disjointed Russian to make him more acceptable to "Western good taste"; modern translators now see those stylistic "faults" as a polyphonic clashing of voices that should be captured in English. The first 116 pages cover translation theory and history, while the heart of this guide is the 17 geographic sections that follow, starting with African languages, moving through Latin, and ending with the West Asian languages. There are excellent bibliographies and an author index. The best alternative is The Reader's Adviser, currently in its 14th edition from Bowker, but it stresses biographical/critical information and gives little information about the challenges of translation. France (Emeritus Fellow, Univ. of Edinburgh) also edited the New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Highly recommended for libraries serving scholarly literary programs.DPeter Dollard, Alma Coll. Lib., MI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

France's guide addresses the study and current state of translation and provides a selective review of translators and translations for literatures throughout the world. Part 1 outlines historical and current theories of translation, regional contexts for and history of translation, and the growing field of the study of translation. Part 2 provides a critical survey of significant translators and translations by region, language, genre, and time period. Accompanying bibliographies are extremely selective, focusing on influential works rather than attempting completeness. This work might pique anyone's interest and would be valuable as a desktop reference for scholars, students, and general readers of world literature. Public and academic libraries will want this work along with Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, ed. by Mona Baker (CH, Dec'98), which significantly expands on the subject matter of Part 1. Other fuller, though no longer current, bibliographies of translations include Literatures of the World in English Translation (1967- ), a critical bibliography of translations from classical Greek and Latin, Romance, and Slavic literatures (1968-1970), and Index Translationum (Paris, 1932-40, 1948-86), an annual bibliography of world literature in translation. R. Stuhr; Grinnell College

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Peter France is Professor Emeritus and Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh