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Literary Translator Studies
Edited by Klaus Kaindl, Waltraud Kolb and Daniela Schlager
[Benjamins Translation Library 156] 2021
► pp. 293–306

Chapter 16
Dressing up for Halloween

Walking the line between translating and writing

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Article outline
  • Introduction: The figure of the translator
  • Rachel Cantor: Translation as new life
  • Idra Novey: The translator as bad girl
  • Conclusion: In praise of translation
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 3 May 2021
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