Translation, Poetics, And The Stage: Six French Hamlets (Routledge Library Editions: Shakespeare In Performance)

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 successive translations of "Hamlet" in France from the eighteenth century neoclassical version of Jean-Francois Ducis to the 20th-century Lacanian, post-structuralist stage production of Daniel Mesguich show the translator at work. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the changing theatrical and literary norms to which translators through the ages have been bound by the expectations both of their audiences and the literary establishment. 9781138790865 1138790869 170 Literary Criticism NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=GiSMoAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Romy Heylen
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Aug 06, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 180 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1138790869
• • ISBN-13: 9781138790865