Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature by Baer, Brian James

Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781628927986)

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Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature by Baer, Brian James

Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature

$39.95
Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature by Baer, Brian James

Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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Brian James Baer explores the central role played by translation in the construction of modern Russian literature. Peter I's policy of forced Westernization resulted in translation becoming a widely discussed and highly visible practice in Russia, a multi-lingual empire with a polyglot elite. Yet Russia's accumulation of cultural capital through translation occurred at a time when the Romantic obsession with originality was marginalizing translation as mere imitation. The awareness on the part of Russian writers that their literature and, by extension, their cultural identity were "born in translation" produced a sustained and sophisticated critique of Romantic authorship and national identity that has long been obscured by the nationalist focus of traditional literary studies.

By offering a re-reading of seminal works of the Russian literary canon that thematize translation, alongside studies of the circulation and reception of specific translated texts, Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature models the long overdue integration of translation into literary and cultural studies.

Author: Brian James Baer
ISBN-10: 1628927984
ISBN-13: 9781628927986
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2015
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2016
By Brian James Baer
By Brian James Baer
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Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University, USA. He is the author of Other Russias: Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011, and the editor or co-editor of five books, including Russian Writers on Translation. An Anthology (co-edited with Natalia Olshanskaya, 2013). He is the Founding Editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies.

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