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Translation, Poetics, and the Stage: Six French Hamlets book cover

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Translation, Poetics, and the Stage Six French Hamlets

By Romy Heylen Copyright 1993
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge
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This book establishes an analytical model for the description of existing translations in their historical context within a framework suggested by systemic concepts of literature. It argues against mainstream 20th-century translation theory and, by proposing a socio-cultural model of translation, takes into account how a translation functions in the receiving culture. The case studies of... Read more

Preface  Introduction: A Cultural Model of Translation  1. Jean-François Ducis' Hamlet, Tragédie imitée de l'Anglois: A Neoclassical Tragedy?  2. Alexandre Dumas and Paul Meurice's Hamlet, Prince de Danemark: Translation as an Exercise in Power  3. Marcel Schwob and Eugène Morand's La Tragique Histoire d'Hamlet: A Folkloric Prose Translation  4. The Blank Verse Shall Halt For't: André Gide's La Tragédie d'Hamlet  5. Yves Bonnefoy’s La Tragédie d’Hamlet: An Allegorical Translation  6. Theatre as Translation/Translation as Theatre: Shakespeare's Hamlet by the Théâtre du Miroir.  Concluding Remarks.  Appendix: Table of Selected Hamlet Productions

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