Understanding Misunderstanding. Vol.1: Cross-Cultural Translation (Cross-Roads) - Hardcover

 
9783631788073: Understanding Misunderstanding. Vol.1: Cross-Cultural Translation (Cross-Roads)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 363178807X ISBN 13: 9783631788073
Publisher: Peter Lang, 2019

Synopsis

This book explores the covert and overt creative potential of misunderstanding. Viewed from the authors’ perspective, misunderstanding proves an elementary and unavoidable aspect of linguistic and cultural communication that can have a surprisingly beneficial impact on social relations and concomitantly stimulate the emergence of new cultural forms. As the authors of the book prove, cross-cultural contact is definitely a dynamic and asymmetric process rather than a static and symmetric transfer of values from one culture to another.

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About the Author

Tamara Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz is Associate Professor at the Department of Historical Poetics, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Her most recent works concern comparative modernism studies, literary translation studies and experimental translation.

Magdalena Rembowska-Płuciennik is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Historical Poetics, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Her main subjects of research are literary theory (cognitive narratology) and literary anthropology.

Beata Śniecikowska is Associate Professor at the Department of Historical Poetics, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Her most recent works concern transcultural genre studies, comparative avant-garde studies and intersemiotics.

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Publisher
Peter Lang
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
363178807X
ISBN 13 
9783631788073
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
258
Editor
Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz