1st Edition

Perspectives on Retranslation Ideology, Paratexts, Methods

246 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Perspectives on Retranslation: Ideology, Paratexts, Methods explores retranslation from a variety of aspects and reflects methodological and theoretical developments in the field. Featuring eleven chapters, each offering a unique approach, the book presents a well-rounded analysis of contemporary issues in retranslation. It brings together case studies and examples from a range of contexts... Read more

Introduction

Özlem Berk Albachten and Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar

Section I. Ideology and Censorship in Retranslation

1. Retranslating Lorca’s "Ode to Walt Whitman" from Taboo to Totem

Andrew Samuel Walsh

2. Retranslating D. H. Lawrence in the 21st-Century: From Censorship to Marketability

Nathalie Ségeral

3. Retranslating in a Censorial Context: H.C. Armstrong’s Grey Wolf in Turkish

Ceyda Özmen

Section II. Paratextual Studies in Retranslation

4. Repackaging, Retranslation, and Intersemiotic Translation: A Turkish Novel in Greece

Arzu Eker-Roditakis

5. Extratextual Factors Shaping Preconceptions about Retranslation: Bruno Schulz in English

Zofia Ziemann

Section III. Towards New Objects, Methods, and Concepts

6. Critical Edition as Retranslation: Mediating ʿAlī Ufuḳī’s Notation Collections (c. 1630-1670)

Judith I. Haug

7. Readers and Retranslation. Transformation in Readers’ Habituses in Turkey from the 1930s to 2010s

Müge Işıklar Koçak and Ahu Selin Erkul Yağcı

8. Translation Modalities Method in Retranslation Analysis: A Paixão Segundo G. H. in English.

Julieta Widman

9. Towards an Empirical Methodology for Identifying Plagiarism in Retranslation

Mehmet Şahin, Derya Duman, Damla Kaleş, Sabri Gürses, and David Woolls

Section IV. Retranslation History and Bibliographical Studies 

10. Retranslation History and its Contribution to Translation History: The Case of Russian-Dutch Retranslation

Piet Van Poucke

11. The Making and Reading of a Bibliography of Retranslations

Özlem Berk Albachten and Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar

Biography

Özlem Berk Albachten is professor of Translation Studies at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. She has published widely on Turkish translation history and is the author of Translation and Westernization in Turkey: from the 1840s to the 1980s (2004) and Kuramlar Işığında Açıklamalı Çeviribilim Terimcesi (2005 - Translation Terminology in Light of Theories).

Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar is professor of translation studies and teaches at the graduate programs at Glendon College, York University and Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. Her main fields of interest are translation history, ideology and translation and periodical studies. She is the author of The Politics and Poetics of Translation in Turkey, 1923-1960 (2008).