Chapter 3. Translator biographies as a contribution to Translator Studies

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. (Literary) Translator Studies 1
4. Part 1. Biographical and bibliographical avenues
5. Chapter 1. Literary detection in the archives 41
6. Chapter 2. George Egerton and Eleanor Marx as mediators of Scandinavian literature 55
7. Chapter 3. Translator biographies as a contribution to Translator Studies 73
8. Chapter 4. Staging the literary translator in bibliographic catalogs 89
9. Part 2. Social-scientific and process-oriented approaches
10. Chapter 5. “Hemingway’s priorities were just different” 107
11. Chapter 6. Investigating literary translators’ translatorship through narrative identity 123
12. Chapter 7. Institutional consecration of fifteen Swedish translators – ‘star translators’ or not? 137
13. Part 3. Paratexts as door-openers
14. Chapter 8. The Translator’s Note revisited 157
15. Chapter 9. Translators of children’s literature and their voice in prefaces and interviews 183
16. Chapter 10. Translators’ multipositionality, teloi and goals 199
17. Chapter 11. Mediating the female transla(u)t(h)orial posture 215
18. Part 4. Translations and fictions of translations as gateways
19. Chapter 12. Traveling translators 235
20. Chapter 13. The voices of James Stratton Holmes 249
21. Chapter 14. Determining a translator’s attitude 265
22. Chapter 15. View from left field 279
23. Chapter 16. Dressing up for Halloween 293
24. Name index 307
25. Subject index 309