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Article published In: Translation Spaces
Vol. 11:2 (2022) ► pp.157–183

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A cartography of translation

Visualizing translation spaces

ORCiD logo with link | University of Graz
Published online: 24 May 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.20049.hof
Abstract
Space as an epistemological category has a long history within the humanities in general and has attracted increasing attention more recently in translation studies. It has come to be understood predominantly as a discursive category (e.g., cultural spaces in a figurative sense) and the product of social interactions (cf. the relationship between agents). This contribution focuses for the first time on the physical movement within an eminent translatorial project at the beginning of the 19th century in Russia. Where do these translators come from, where do they move to and where do they leave after finishing the translation? In addressing those questions, this case study brings to the fore the relevant spatial relations of translators, translations and other agents engaged in a translation. Several thematic maps are produced, which are helpful for visualizing these movements in space and for situating a translation space in the context of its physical surroundings.
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • The spatial turn and its various applications
  • The spatial turn within translation studies
  • Case study: Mapping translation history
  • The History as an imperial identity project
  • Five translators of the German version
  • Friedrich Leopold von Hauenschild (1783–1830)
  • Alexander Rembert von der Osten-Sacken (1789–1866)
  • Christian August Wilhelm Oldekop (1787–1845)
  • Gotthilf Wilhelm Oertel (1793–1847)
  • Carl Reinhold Goldhammer (1809–1851)
  • Tsarskoye Selo
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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