Author : Rebecca Maria DeWald
Publisher : Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study University of London
ISBN 13 : 9780854572748
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (727 download)
Book Synopsis Possible Worlds by : Rebecca Maria DeWald
Download or read book Possible Worlds written by Rebecca Maria DeWald and published by Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study University of London. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reevaluates and overturns the assumed hierarchical relationship between original text and translation with an approach that places source and target texts as equal. Combining the translation strategy of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, the theoretical approaches of Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault, and the exponents of Possible World Theory, the author examines Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Franz Kafka's short stories in detail. Rather than considering what may be lost in translation, this study focuses on why we insist on maintaining a border between the textual phenomena of "translation" and "original" and argues for a mutually enriching dialogue between two texts.