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Literary Translator Studies
Edited by Klaus Kaindl, Waltraud Kolb and Daniela Schlager
[Benjamins Translation Library 156] 2021
► pp. 157–181

Chapter 8
The Translator’s Note revisited

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Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Should the translator have a voice?
  • The corpus
  • Translators’ Notes in Group A: Data
  • Translators’ Notes in Group A: Analysis
  • Translators’ Notes in Group B: Data
  • Translators’ Notes in Group B: Analysis
  • Translator’s Note: Integration and discussion
  • Inconclusive Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
Published online: 3 May 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.156.08ben
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Appendix

Group A

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