Translators, editors, publishers, and critics
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Kristina Solum
Abstract
This chapter examines three recent Norwegian debates on translation sparked off by translation reviews, in which the various agents involved in producing translated texts were granted unusual visibility. The case reflects how discussions on translators’ agency may be of interest for the public sphere in three senses: in disputing unfair judgments on translations, in discussing the quality criteria of translations, and in gatekeeping when the publishers’ quality control mechanisms have fallen short.
Abstract
This chapter examines three recent Norwegian debates on translation sparked off by translation reviews, in which the various agents involved in producing translated texts were granted unusual visibility. The case reflects how discussions on translators’ agency may be of interest for the public sphere in three senses: in disputing unfair judgments on translations, in discussing the quality criteria of translations, and in gatekeeping when the publishers’ quality control mechanisms have fallen short.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
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Part I. Opening the field
- Introduction 3
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Part II. Charting the field
- The Scandinavian singer-translator’s multisemiotic voice as performance 21
- Translators, editors, publishers, and critics 39
- The making of a bestseller-in-translation 61
- Contextual factors when reading a translated academic text 81
- When poets translate poetry 101
- Translators in search of originals 119
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Part III. Traveling the field
- Unraveling multiple translatorship through an e-mail correspondence 133
- Silenced in translation 159
- The voice of the implied author in the first Norwegian translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe 181
- Three voices or one? 201
- The voices of Cieza de León in English 223
- References 241
- Index 263
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
-
Part I. Opening the field
- Introduction 3
-
Part II. Charting the field
- The Scandinavian singer-translator’s multisemiotic voice as performance 21
- Translators, editors, publishers, and critics 39
- The making of a bestseller-in-translation 61
- Contextual factors when reading a translated academic text 81
- When poets translate poetry 101
- Translators in search of originals 119
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Part III. Traveling the field
- Unraveling multiple translatorship through an e-mail correspondence 133
- Silenced in translation 159
- The voice of the implied author in the first Norwegian translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe 181
- Three voices or one? 201
- The voices of Cieza de León in English 223
- References 241
- Index 263