Translation and the Languages of Modernism: Gender, Politics, Language

Yao, Steven G.

ISBN 10: 0312295197 / ISBN 13: 9780312295196

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

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288 pages. 8.25x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Translation and the Languages of Modernism: Gender, Politics, Language
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312295197
• ISBN 13: 9780312295196
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.45 kilograms

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Synopsis

This study examines the practice and functions of literary translation in Anglo-American Modernism. Rather than approaching translation as a trans-historical procedure for reproducing semantic meaning between different languages, Yao discusses how Modernist writers both conceived and employed translation as a complex strategy for accomplishing such feats as exploring the relationship between gender and poetry, creating an authentic national culture and determining the nature of a just government, all of which in turn led to developments in both poetic and novelistic form. Thus, translation emerges in this study as a literary practice crucial to the very development of Anglo-American Modernism.

About the Author

STEVEN G. YAO is Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University, where he teaches Anglo-American Modernist literature, translation history and Asian American Studies.