Mediating Practices in Translating Children’s Literature (Kinder- und Jugendkultur, -literatur und -medien) - Hardcover

 
9783631818442: Mediating Practices in Translating Children’s Literature (Kinder- und Jugendkultur, -literatur und -medien)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3631818440 ISBN 13: 9783631818442
Publisher: Peter Lang, 2020

Synopsis

The goal of the book is to investigate mediating practices used in translation of children’s and young adults’ fiction, focusing on transfer of contents considered controversial or unsuitable for young audiences. It shows how the macabre and cruelty, swear words and bioethical issues have been affected in translation across cultures and times. Analysing selected key texts from Grimms’ tales and Hoffmann’s Struwwelpeter to Roald Dahl’s fiction, it shows that mediating approaches, sometimes infringing upon the integrity of source texts, are still part of contemporary translation practices. The volume includes contributions of renowned TS scholars and practitioners, working with a variety of approaches from descriptive translation studies and literary criticism to translation pedagogy and museum studies.

"The angle of looking into the topics is fresh and acute and I whole-heartedly recommend the book for readers from scholars to parents and school-teachers, for all adults taking a special interest in and cherishing children and their literature".

Riitta Oittinen, Tampere University, Finland

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About the Author

Joanna Dybiec-Gajer is a translation scholar, educator and practitioner, and an associate professor at the Pedagogical University of Kraków, where she is Head of the Chair for Translator Education. Her main research interests concern translation for young audiences and translator training.

Agnieszka Gicala is an associate professor in the Institute of English Philology at the Pedagogical University of Kraków, and a freelance translator. Her academic interests include linguistic worldview, cognitive theories of metaphor and blending in translation and the language of religion.

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Publisher
Peter Lang
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3631818440
ISBN 13 
9783631818442
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
318
Editor
Dybiec-Gajer