Literary Translation, Language and Thought [Hardcover]

Part I 1. Translating Drama into German. A Praxis oriented Theory 2. Concepts Behind Recent German Bible Translations:?A Translatological Analysis 3. Translating Punjabi Medieval Sufi Poetry Shah Hussains S
lu: The Shawl of Love?4. Alienation and Naturalisation: On Albrechts Translation of William Shakespeares Venus and Adonis into German Part II 5. On Translating Flaubert 6. Translating Cultures: Issues and Challenges in Translating a Paite Folktale Lengtonghoih into English?7.?Transnational Transcultural Translation:?Indian Folktales, German Romanticism and British Colonialism?8. On the English and Hindi Translations of Martin Bubers Ich und Du?Part III 9. Finding Kins in Minoritisation: Naiyer Masud translating Franz Kafka 10.? Shifting Frontiers and Expanding Limits: Olga Tokarczuk in Hindi 11. Translation and why we need it

This book looks at the intersection where languages meet, where literary studies connect with other domains of knowledge like translation, modern linguistics, philosophy of language, the teaching of languages, and cultural studies.

Rosy Singh, Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Mercy V. Guite, Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

 

This book looks at the intersection where languages meet, where literary studies connect with other domains of knowledge such as translation, modern linguistics, philosophy of language, the teaching of languages, and cultural studies. Authors speak of their experiences in literary translation and discuss texts translated from and into languages such as ancient Hebrew and Greek, German, English, French, Polish, Punjabi, Paite, Urdu, and Hindi.l³Ñ