Translation and the Languages of Modernism: Gender, Politics, Language (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349635559)

This study examines the practice and functions of literary translation in Anglo-American Modernism. Rather than approaching translation as a trans-historical procedure for reproducing semantic meaning between different languages, Yao discusses how Modernist writers both conceived and employed translation as a complex strategy for accomplishing such feats as exploring the relationship between gender and poetry, creating an authentic national culture and determining the nature of a just government, all of which in turn led to developments in both poetic and novelistic form. Thus, translation emerges in this study as a literary practice crucial to the very development of Anglo-American Modernism.

Author: S. Yao
ISBN-10: 1349635553
ISBN-13: 9781349635559
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2003
Pages: 291
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d