An Approach to Translation Criticism

Emma and Madame Bovary in translation
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-2443-9
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 95, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 685 g

Reihe: Benjamins Translation Library

Lance Hewson's book on translation criticism sets out to examine ways in which a literary text may be explored as a translation, not primarily to judge it, but to understand where the text stands in relation to its original by examining the interpretative potential that results from the translational choices that have been made. After considering theoretical aspects of translation criticism, Hewson sets out a method of analysing originals and their translations on three different levels. Tools are provided to describe translational choices and their potential effects, and applied to two corpora: Flaubert's Madame Bovary and six of the English translations, and Austen's Emma, with three of the French translations. The results of the analyses are used to construct a hypothesis about each translation, which is classified according to two scales of measurement, one distinguishing between "just" and "false" interpretations, and the other between "divergent similarity", "relative divergence", "radical divergence" and "adaptation".

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hewson, Lance

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Übersetzung, Editionstechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen