Agnes Whitfield
List of John Benjamins publications in which Agnes Whitfield is involved.
Articles
2022 Unspoken assumptions, deep holes and boundless expectations: The dialogical tensions in teaching short stories When Dialogue Fails, Müller-Wood, Anja (ed.), pp. 110–129 | Article
This study examines the different institutional, disciplinary, and pedagogical factors that come into play when teaching literary works with the goal of fostering dialogue, understood in the sense of civic communication and tolerance. Drawing on an Action Research approach, the analysis probes a… read more
2015 Retranslation in a postcolonial context: Extra-textual and intra-textual voices in Hubert Aquin’s novel of Québec independence Prochain épisode Voice in Retranslation, Alvstad, Cecilia and Alexandra Assis Rosa (eds.), pp. 75–93 | Article
This article explores theoretical dimensions of voice in retranslation in postcolonial situations through a contextualized analysis of extra-textual and intratextual voices in the English-Canadian translation and retranslation of Prochain épisode, Hubert Aquin’s 1965 political novel on Québec’s… read more
2006 Between Translation and Traduction: The many paradoxes of Deux Solitudes Sociocultural Aspects of Translating and Interpreting, Pym, Anthony, Miriam Shlesinger † and Zuzana Jettmarová (eds.), pp. 101–116 | Article
Several translation paradoxes underlie the writing and translation of the classic Canadian novel, Two Solitudes, whose very title has come to symbolize the irreconcilable gap between Anglophones and Francophones in Canada. These paradoxes reflect the intercultural nature of the book’s themes, the… read more