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The Situatedness of Translation Studies
In The Situatedness of Translation Studies, Luc van Doorslaer and Ton Naaijkens critically reassess some outdated views about Translation Studies, and demonstrate that translation theory is far more diverse than its usual representation as a Western scholarly tradition arising from the 1970s onwards. They present ten chapters about lesser-known conceptualizations of translation and translation theory in various cultural contexts, such as Chinese, Estonian, Greek, Russian and Ukrainian. This book shows that so-called ‘modern’ arguments about translation practice encompassing much more than a linguistic phenomenon, can, in fact, be dated back and connected to several precursors, such as semiotics or transfer theory. In doing so, it theorizes and localizes discussions about perceptions of translation and Translation Studies as a discipline. Contributors: Yves Gambier, Iryna Odrekhivska, Elin Sütiste & Silvi Salupere, Shaul Levin, Feng Cui, Natalia Kamovnikova, Anastasia Shakhova, George Floros & Simos Grammenidis, Anne Lange, Luc van Doorslaer & Ton Naaijkens.
Akim Volynsky
In Akim Volynsky: A Hidden Russian-Jewish Prophet Helen Tolstoy goes far beyond the accepted image of Akim Volynsky as a controversial literary critic of the 1890s who ran the first journal of Russian Symbolists, promoted philosophic idealism and proposed the first modernist reading of Dostoevsky. This book, through the study of periodicals and archive materials, offers a new view of Volynsky as a champion of Symbolist theater, supporter of Jewish playwrights, an ardent partisan of Habima theater and finally, a theoretician of Jewish theater. Throughout his life, Volynsky was a seeker of a Jewish-Christian synthesis, both religious and moral. His grand universalist view made him the first to see the true value of leading Russian writers – his contemporaries Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
World Literature in the Soviet Union
This is the first volume to consistently examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives: intellectual history, literary history and theory, comparative literature, translation studies, diaspora studies. Its emphasis is on the lessons one could learn from the Soviet attention to world literature; as such, the present volume makes a significant contribution to current debates on world literature beyond the field of Slavic and East European Studies and foregrounds the need to think of world literature pluralistically, in a manner that is not restricted by the agendas of Anglophone academe.
Two Hundred Years of Pushkin, Volume I
From his earliest publications onwards Pushkin has been the source of inspiration, and imitation, for other writers, as well as composers, painters and, more recently, film-makers. This book seeks to explore the different relationship his followers have sought with the ‘founding father’ of modern Russian culture. Pushkin’s Secret: Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin takes a variety of approaches. Some contributors to the collection trace the way Pushkin’s works provided the template for the characters and stories which were produced in the first decades after his untimely death in 1837. Others reveal the impact the myths surrounding Pushkin’s tragic life were used (and abuse...
Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context
Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context examines the translation and reception of Russian literature as a world-wide process. This volume aims to provoke new debate about the continued currency of Russian literature as symbolic capital for international readers, in particular for nations seeking to create or consolidate cultural and political leverage in the so-called ‘World Republic of Letters’. It also seeks to examine and contrast the mechanisms of the translation and uses of Russian literature across the globe. This collection presents academic essays, grouped according to geographical location, by thirty-seven international scholars. Collectively, their expertise encomp...
Baltische Bildungsgeschichte(n)
Für die baltischen Länder ist Bildung ein Schlüsselthema, das ihre Geschichte und ihr Selbstverständnis sowohl im Hinblick auf die Fremdbestimmung als auch auf die eigene Staatenbildung betrifft. Im Zuge von Handelskontakten, Christianisierung, Ordenskriegen und Rechtsimport gerieten die autochthonen Völkerschaften des baltischen Raums unter kulturelle, sprachliche und politische Einflüsse unterschiedlichen Gewichts. Sie waren dadurch zum Teil gewaltvollen Formierungsprozessen ausgesetzt. Im vorliegenden Band wird das Baltikum in Geschichte und Gegenwart aus der Perspektive eines weit gefassten Bildungsbegriffs untersucht. Die Beiträge stammen aus der Feder von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern aus Estland, Lettland, Litauen und Deutschland, insbesondere der Germanistik, aber auch der Geschichte, Bildungsgeschichte, Rechtsgeschichte, Slavistik und Komparatistik. Der Band zeigt wesentliche Aspekte der baltischen Bildungsgeschichte und ihrer Narrationen an beispielhaften Analysen und Fallstudien für alle drei baltischen Länder auf.
«И вечные французы…»: Одиннадцать статей из истории французской и русской литературы
Русско-французские культурные и литературные связи насчитывают не одну сотню лет — неудивительно, что они оставили след в творчестве самых известных авторов — Пушкина, Лермонтова, Вяземского, И. С. Тургенева. Помещая произведения русских и французских писателей в международный контекст, Вера Мильчина, ведущий научный сотрудник ИВГИ РГГУ и ШАГИ РАНХиГС, приходит к неожиданным р...
In Search of Russian Modernism
A critical reexamination of Russian modernist cultural historiography. Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures by the Modern Language Association The writing and teaching of Russian literary and cultural history have changed little since the 1980s. In Search of Russian Modernism challenges the basic premises of Russian modernist studies, removing the aura of certainty surrounding the analytical tools at our disposal and suggesting audacious alternatives to the conventional ways of thinking and speaking about Russian and transnational modernism. Drawing on methodological breakthroughs in Anglo-American new modernist studies, Leonid Livak e...
Wisconsin's Natural Communities
Cattails grow in a marsh, pitcher plants grow in a bog, jewelweed grows in a swamp, right? Do sandhill cranes live among sandy hills? Frogs live near lakes and ponds, but can they live on prairies, too? What is a pine barrens, an oak opening, a calcareous fen? Wisconsin’s Natural Communities is an invitation to discover, explore, and understand Wisconsin’s richly varied natural environment, from your backyard or neighborhood park to stunning public preserves.Part 1 of the book explains thirty-three distinct types of natural communities in Wisconsin—their characteristic trees, beetles, fish, lichens, butterflies, reptiles, mammals, wildflowers—and the effects of geology, climate, and ...
