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Head or Legs? Shifts in Texts and Paratexts brought about by Agents of the Publishing Industry
(Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre, 2013)In this paper, I study the impact that the different agents of the editorial world can have on the translation of a novel and its paratext. In order to illustrate the sort of shifts that occur in this process, I provide ... -
Who’s afraid of Dario Fo? Paratextual commentary in English-language versions of Accidental Death of an Anarchist
(Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre, 2013)This article analyzes the paratextual commentary in six English versions of Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist. In the paratexts, translators, adaptors and literary critics engage with two problems: Fo’s permission ... -
Indiscreet Journeys: Rewriting Katherine Mansfield
(Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre, 2013)A comparative study of the practices of writing, editing and translating sheds new light on the concept and process of rewriting. In turn, understanding the dynamics of rewriting unveils the interplay among those practices. ... -
Sense and Censorship: Authors and the Agents of Change
(Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre, 2013)When does editing become censorship? This article focuses on the editing practices for the English productions of Václav Havel’s plays, arguing that these practices transformed the plays into political emblems of the Cold ... -
Agency in Allographic Prefaces to Translated Works: An Initial Exploration of the Turkish Context
(Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre, 2013)The paper explores prefaces written by so-called “third persons” to translated literature, termed “allographic prefaces” by Genette. These preface writers are often important figures in the target field with a high degree ... -
Voice in the Persian Hajji Baba
(Éditions québécoises de l'oeuvre, collection Vita Traductiva, 2013)When the picaresque novel The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan was published in Persian in 1905, it contained a critique of Persian autocratic tradition, contrasting it with the relative modernity of Constantinople. Who ... -
The Translator's Voice in Focalization
(Éditions québécoises de l'oeuvre, collection Vita Traductiva, 2013)This article examines how the narratological consequences of systematic, focalization-related (conscious or non-conscious) linguistic choices made by literary translators can mold authorial focalization. Through focalization ... -
Multiple Translatorship
(Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre, 2013)Coining the concept of “multiple translatorship,” this introduction discusses the multiple ways in which the translator’s agency is intertwined with that of other parties in the process of bringing the translation into the ... -
Translation as Collaboration? Erich Fried, Peter Zadek, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre, 2013)This article records and evaluates the collaboration between translator Erich Fried and director Peter Zadek in the translation of Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a translation made for the Theater der Freien ... -
Who is the author of the translated text? The Swedish translation of Dinah Mulock’s A Woman’s Thoughts about Women
(Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre, 2013)By discussing Sophie Leijonhufvud’s Swedish translation (1861) of Dinah Mulock’s A Woman’s Thoughts about Women (1858), this article investigates how the agenda of the translator and editor may affect the target text, for ... -
Dänische Delikatessen. Linguistic Changes within the Translation of Titles
(Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre, 2013)The translation of cultural titles, e.g. of books or films, creates linguistic changes and fixed patterns. But what changes and why? In this paper the relation between intra- and extra-translational changes is examined, ... -
Voice in the Field of Translation Studies/De questionnement en questionnement
(Éditions québécoises de l'oeuvre, collection Vita Traductiva, 2013)Working from the metalanguage of Translation Studies, where ‘voice’ is used to describe a large and diffracted set of enunciative characteristics, this introduction defines intratextual voices using Anthony Pym’s concept ... -
Transgressing Authority – Authors, Translators and Other Masqueraders
(Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre, 2013)The huge success of Walter Scott in Portugal in the first half of the 19th century was partially achieved by sacrificing the ironic take on authorship his Waverley Novels entailed. This article examines translations of his ... -
Two Danish Chaucer Translators in the 1940s and their Editors at the Literary Magazine Cavalcade
(Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre, 2013)Several Chaucer translations that appeared in the Danish literary magazine Cavalcade from the late 1940s are analysed. The two translators, Lis Thorbjørnsen and Jørgen Sonne, are shown to be heavily influenced by the ... -
Schiller’s Don Carlos in a Version by Mike Poulton, Directed by Michael Grandage: The Multiple Names and Voices of Translation
(Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre, 2013)Theatre provides an overt display of the protagonists and processes of translation but has its share of hidden participants. This case study reviews the multiplicity of voices active in translation, the extent of their ... -
Voice, Tone and Ethos: A Portrait of the Translator as a Spokesperson
(Éditions québécoises de l'oeuvre, collection Vita Traductiva, 2013)Working from Gabriel Okara’s novel The Voice and its French (Jean Sévry) and German (Olga and Erich Fetter) translations, this article redefines translation as an act of re-enunciation by which an enunciator substitutes ... -
Intratextual Voices in French-English Literary Translation in Canada: Identifying the Translation Challenges
(Éditions québécoises de l'oeuvre, collection Vita Traductiva, 2013)Working with a Canadian corpus of French-English literary translations of fiction and non-fiction, this article examines translation challenges posed by intratextual voices particularly in contexts of intermingling voices, ... -
Common and Uncommon Readers: Communication among Translators and Translation Critics at Different Moments of the Text’s Life
(Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre, 2013)This paper explores the issues of translator voice, editorial intervention and translation criticism drawing on the authors’ personal experiences with the same text in different fields of the translation territory. The ... -
Translating Irish Literature into Italian: The Challenges of Decoding the Unfamiliar
(Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre, 2013)This article explores some aspects and implications of a translation policy widely adopted by Italian publishers, here termed ‘pseudo-transparency.’ The analysis of the Irish author Dermot Bolger’s novel The Journey Home ... -
Changer le prof principal : glissements dans la traduction allemande du roman de François Bégaudeau Entre les murs
(Éditions québécoises de l'oeuvre, collection Vita Traductiva, 2013)Cette étude examine les problèmes que présente la traduction de dialogues dans le roman de François Bégaudeau Entre les murs et sa traduction allemande. La comparaison de l’original et du texte cible montre que la tentative ...