Table of contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. About the contributors xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Gender and identity
6. Chapter 1. Genos , sex, gender and genre 9
7. Chapter 2. Dancing through the waves of feminism 25
8. Part II. Texts and politics
9. Chapter 3. Bartolomé de Las Casas’ Breve Relación de la Destrucción de Las Indias ( Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies ) (1552) in translation 37
10. Chapter 4. Have English translations of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung , an icon of German culture, been affected by the changing relationship between Germany and Britain in the twentieth century? 53
11. Chapter 5. Communicating change 79
12. Part III. Texts and places
13. Chapter 6. Lithuanian literature in English 95
14. Chapter 7. Woest of wild 115
15. Chapter 8. Polish dance in Eugene Onegin 131
16. Part IV. Occident and Orient
17. Chapter 9. The image of H. C. Andersen’s tales in China (1909–1925) 153
18. Chapter 10. The cultural transformation of classical Chinese poetry in translation into English 171
19. Chapter 11. The immigration of key cultural icons 185
20. Chapter 12. Reproduction and reception of the concepts of Confucianism, Buddhism and polygamy 203
21. Part V. Translating philosophy
22. Chapter 13. Hegel’s Phenomenology 221
23. Chapter 14. Adorno refracted 235
24. Part VI. Text types
25. Chapter 15. Construction of a cultural narrative through translation 257
26. Chapter 16. Cultural satirical features in translation 275
27. Chapter 17. Alterity, orality and performance in Bible translation 299
28. Index of concepts 315
29. Index of names 319