Introduction – Topics and concepts in literary translation
Roberto A. Valdeón
1. Voices from the periphery: further reflections on relativism in translation studies
Nam Fung Chang
2. Reterritorialization and aesthetic transformations: the case of Tony Harrison’s Phaedra Britannica and The Misanthrope
Cédric Ploix
3. Translation space in nineteenth-century Belgium: rethinking translation and transfer directions
Lieven D’hulst and Heleen van Gerwen
4. Separated by the same language: Intralingual translation between Dutch and Dutch
Elke Brems
5. From Nuoro to Nobel: the impact of multiple mediatorship on Grazia Deledda’s movement within the literary semi-periphery
Cecilia Schwartz
6. The tacit influence of the copy-editor in literary translation
Kristina Solum
7. The beginnings of literary translation in Japan: an overview
James Hadley
8. Intertextuality in retranslation
Huanyao Zhang and Huijuan Ma
9. Reconstructing cultural identity via paratexts: A case study on Lionel Giles’ translation of The Art of War
Tian Luo and Meifang Zhang
10. Who said what? Translated messages and language interpreters in three texts by Javier Marías and Almudena Grandes
Marta Pérez-Carbonell
Biography
Roberto A. Valdeón is Professor in English Studies at the University of Oviedo, Spain, Honorary Professor at Jinan University in Zhuhai, China, and Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He is the editor-in-chief of Perspectives Studies in Translation Theory and Practice and the general editor of the Benjamins Translation Theory. He is a fellow of the Academia Europaea.
