LITERARY TRANSLATION AS PERFORMANCE. THEORETICAL QUESTIONS AND A LITERARY ANALOGY

Obstacles To Literary Translation: Challenges and

Literary Translation and Cultural Referencing : The Blinding Absence of Light as a Case Study

This paper addresses the issue of culture specific references in translating a literary work taking as a case study the novel Cette aveuglante absence de lumière written originally in the French language by Taher Benjelloun and translated into the English language under the title The Blinding Absence of Light by Linda Coverdale . The study offers insight into the distribution of these reference...

Literary Translation and Cultural Referencing : The Blinding Absence of Light as a Case Study

This paper addresses the issue of culture specific references in translating a literary work taking as a case study the novel Cette aveuglante absence de lumière written originally in the French language by Taher Benjelloun and translated into the English language under the title The Blinding Absence of Light by Linda Coverdale . The study offers insight into the distribution of these reference...

Literary Translation as a Nexus of Language Planning

In recent years, the discipline of Translation Studies (TS) has moved toward producing research that takes greater account of the social and cultural contexts in which literary translations are produced (Bassnett, 2010). As a result, the writings of TS theorists are generating insights that are increasingly relevant to the concerns of sociolinguistics. In particular, their written speech—taken ...

On the Pedagogy of literary translation