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Literary Translator Studies
Edited by Klaus Kaindl, Waltraud Kolb and Daniela Schlager
[Benjamins Translation Library 156] 2021
► pp. 199–214

Chapter 10
Translators’ multipositionality, teloi and goals

The case of Harriet Martineau

 | University of Vienna
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Being a plural actor: Multiple lives and multipositionality
    • Multiple lives and visibility
    • Multiple lives and their common ground
  • Translatorial teloi and goals
    • The construction of teloi and goals
    • The interplay of multipositionality, teloi and goals
  • A special case: Translation as a life telos
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 3 May 2021
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