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Angles on the English-Speaking World
Ida Klitgard
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Description for Angles on the English-Speaking World
Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 262.
This volume of 'Angles on the English-Speaking World' discusses the intriguing inter-relatedness between the concepts and phenomena of world literature and translation. The term 'worlding', presented by Astradur Eysteinsson in this collection, is coined by Sarah Lawell in her book Reading World Literature (1994) where it denotes the reader's pleasurable 'reading' of the meeting of 'worlds' in a literary translation -- i.e. the meeting of the different cultural environments embodied in a translation from one language into another. Through such reading, the reader in fact participates in creating true 'world literature'. This is a somewhat unorthodox conception of ... Read more
This volume of 'Angles on the English-Speaking World' discusses the intriguing inter-relatedness between the concepts and phenomena of world literature and translation. The term 'worlding', presented by Astradur Eysteinsson in this collection, is coined by Sarah Lawell in her book Reading World Literature (1994) where it denotes the reader's pleasurable 'reading' of the meeting of 'worlds' in a literary translation -- i.e. the meeting of the different cultural environments embodied in a translation from one language into another. Through such reading, the reader in fact participates in creating true 'world literature'. This is a somewhat unorthodox conception of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Copenhagen, Denmark
ISBN
9788763504935
SKU
V9788763504935
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About Ida Klitgard
Ida Klitgard PhD, is External Lecturer, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, and Temporary Associate Professor, English Department, Roskilde University
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