عنوان

Virginia Woolf and the migrations of language /

شابک

1107010187 (hardback)

شابک

9781107010185 (hardback)

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Virginia Woolf and the migrations of language /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Emily Dalgarno

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Cambridge University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2012

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xi, 215 p. ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-211) and index

متن يادداشت

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Translation and ethnography in 'On Not Knowing Greek'; 2. Antigone and the public language; 3. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and the Russian soul; 4. Proust and the fictions of the unconscious; 5. Translation and iterability; 6. Assia Djebar and the poetics of lamentation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

بدون عنوان

8

متن يادداشت

"The need to change the structure of the English sentence in order better to meet the requirements of women writers is a constant theme in the work of Virginia Woolf. She wrote during a period when the goals of translation were undergoing fundamental changes that enlarged and facilitated that project. The British translator who was compelled to observe the ethnocentric standards of Greek translation in the university evolved within a few decades into a figure whose aim, in response to the demands of colonial readers, was to mediate between cultures. It is the argument of this book that although Woolf read translations to acquaint herself with the diverse cultures of the world, as a writer she quickly learned to use translation as a means to resist the tendency of the dominant language to control meaning, the first step to remodeling semantics and syntax"--

متن يادداشت

"Virginia Woolf's rich and imaginative use of language was partly a result of her keen interest in foreign literatures and languages - mainly Greek and French, but also Russian, German and Italian. As a translator she naturally addressed herself both to contemporary standards of translation within the university, but also to readers like herself. In Three Guineas she ranged herself among German scholars who used Antigone to critique European politics of the 1930s. Orlando outwits the censors with a strategy that focuses on Proust's untranslatable word. The Waves and The Years show her looking ahead to the problems of postcolonial society, where translation crosses borders. In this first in-depth study of Woolf and European languages and literatures, Emily Dalgarno opens up a rewarding new way of reading her prose"--

موضوع مستند نشده

Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941-- Knowledge-- Language and languages

موضوع مستند نشده

Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941-- Knowledge-- Literature

موضوع مستند نشده

Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941-- Knowledge-- Translating and interpreting

موضوع مستند نشده

Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941-- Language

موضوع مستند نشده

Translating and interpreting-- Philosophy

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Dalgarno, Emily

تاريخ عمليات

20120118115442.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y