Clarissa on the Continent: Translation and Seduction - Couverture rigide

Beebee, Thomas O.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0271006935 ISBN 13 : 9780271006932

Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990

Synopsis

"Clarissa" on the Continent defines and explores two strategies of literary translation―creative vs. preservative and strong vs. weak―as they transform one of the most influential English novels. Thomas Beebee compares the two opposing strategies as they influence the French translation of Clarissa by the novelist Antione François de Prévost and the German translation by the Göttingen Orientalist Johann David Michaelis, and in doing so he demonstrates that each translator found authority for his procedure within the text itself. Each translation is also examined in light of Richardson's other writings and placed in its literary and cultural context.

This study uses translations in order to interpret Clarissa, to show how the basis for the novel's reception on the Continent was laid, and to explore the differences and interactions among three literary and cultural systems of the eighteenth century. The close examination of these two important translations enable the formulation of not only a theory of creative vs. preservative translation but also the interconnections between literary theory and translation theory. Beebee also looks at later translations of Clarissa as products of literary and historical change and at Prévostian strategies of the novel.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Thomas Beebee is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and German at The Pennsylvania State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0271006935
• ISBN 13: 9780271006932
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 244
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