Edited by Klaus Kaindl, Waltraud Kolb and Daniela Schlager
This volume extends and deepens our understanding of Translator Studies by charting new territory in terms of theory, methods and concepts. The focus is on literary translators, their roles, identities, and personalities. The book introduces pertinent translator-centered approaches in four… read more
This volume on Transfiction (understood as an aestheticized imagination of translatorial action) recognizes the power of fiction as a vital and pulsating academic resource, and in doing so helps expand the breadth and depth of TS. The book covers a selection of peer-reviewed papers from the 1st… read more
Edited by Mary Snell-Hornby, Zuzana Jettmarová and Klaus Kaindl
This selection of 30 contributions (3 workshop reports, 27 papers from 14 countries) concentrates on intercultural communication in its broadest sense: themes vary from dissident translation under the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines and translation as a process of power in the 3rd world… read more
Edited by Mary Snell-Hornby, Franz Pöchhacker and Klaus Kaindl
A selection of 44 papers out of the 163 presented at the Translation Studies Congress, which was held in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Institut für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer Ausbildung in Vienna, shows how translation studies is moving away from purely linguistic analysis into LSP,… read more
The aim of this study is to investigate the translation politics in the field of opera in the Third Reich with a special focus on the three Mozart-Da Ponte operas. Mozart was considered as a central part of the German culture. His collaboration with the Jewish librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte and the… read more
Notwithstanding their importance as a segment of high-volume translation, comics have largely been neglected in Translation Studies. This paper presents a theoretical framework for studying the translation of comics as a social practice. On the premise that the production and reception of texts is… read more
Longtemps, la recherche sur les traductions d'opéras s'est appesantie sur les questions pratiques suscitées par la transposition d'un texte assorti à une partition de musique. Quant aux impliqués théoriques, ils ne dépassaient pas le niveau des prescriptions. Le présent article esquisse un cadre… read more