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In:Literary Translator Studies
Edited by Klaus Kaindl, Waltraud Kolb and Daniela Schlager
[Benjamins Translation Library 156] 2021
► pp. 183–198

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Chapter 9
Translators of children’s literature and their voice in prefaces and interviews

 | University of Warsaw
Published online: 3 May 2021
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Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Definitions, corpus and method
  • Form, place, time, senders and addressees of the prefaces
  • The translators’ teloi in prefaces
  • The translators’ self-perception and self-positioning in prefaces
  • Form, place, time, senders and addressees of the interviews
  • The translators’ teloi in interviews
  • The translators’ self-perception and self-positioning in interviews
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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