Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWith the overall high quality of its essays, and its innovative focus on intermediality as a lens through which to theorize translation, this volume makes a thoughtful contribution to ongoing discussions in translation studies and nineteenth-century literary history.
* French Studies *
Table of ContentsForeword / Sonya Stephens
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Sonya Stephens
Part One: Cross-Cultural Translation
1. Transposing Genre, Translating Culture / Marshall C. Olds
2. Translating Bretonness—Colonizing Brittany / Heather Williams
3. Baudelaire and Hiawatha / L. Cassandra Hamrick
4. Migration and Nostalgia: Reflections from Contemporary Cinema / Emma Wilson
Part Two: Cross-Textual Transpositions
5. Parisian Décors: Balzac, the City, and the Armchair Traveller / Michael Tilby
6. The Landscapes of Eugène Fromentin and Gustave Moreau / Barbara Wright
7. Translating the Aesthetic Impression: The Art Writing of 'Marc' de Montifaud / Wendelin Guentner
8. Zola's Transpositions / Robert Lethbridge
9. Transposition and Re-Invention: Rodin's Vision / Sonya Stephens
Part Three: Self-Translation
10. The Mummy's Dance: Staged Transpositions of Gautier's Egyptian Tales / Juliana Starr
11. Translating the Self: Colette and the "Fatally Autobiographical Text / Janet Beizer
Part Four: Translation in Process and Practice
12. René Char: Translating a Mountain / Mary Ann Caws
13. Translations and the Re-Conception of Voice in Modern Verse / Clive Scott
14. Rethinking Originality / Making Us See: Contemporary Art's Strategic Transpositions / Catherine Bernard
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
