- Meets a real need for a comprehensive and unified guide to teaching literature in translation.
- Presents a variety of pedagogical approaches and examples from a wide variety of world languages and literary traditions, as well as modes of writing (prose, poetry, drama, film, and religious and historical texts) with the aim that many of the pedagogical approaches and strategies can be easily adapted for use with other works and traditions.
- Provides an invaluable set of resources for lecturers and instructors within translation studies and literature, especially essential for those teaching texts from languages and cultures with which they may have little or no familiarity.
Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University and Leading Research Fellow at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. His publications include the monographs Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature and Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire.
Michelle Woods is Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz. She is the author of Kafka Translated: How Translators Have Shaped Our Reading of Kafka, Censoring Translation: Censorship, Theatre and the Politics of Translation, and Translating Milan Kundera, and she is the editor of Authorizing Translation.
Title: Teaching Literature in Translation: Pedagogical Contexts and Reading Practices
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ISBN: 9780367613310
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-07-29
Number of Pages: 276
Weight: 0.4201 kg
This is a tremendously useful addition to the bookshelf and toolkit of literature professors who teach in a global perspective-and for those who do not, it offers an excellent account of why they should. Dealing with texts from a wide variety of cultures, contributors show how attending to translation can enhance educational experience in real classroom settings.
David Bellos, Princeton University, USA
