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Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 5Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
[Handbook of Translation Studies 5] 2021
► pp. 247–253
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
[Handbook of Translation Studies 5] 2021
► pp. 247–253
World literature and translation
Article outline
- 1.Translation as world literature
- 2.Translation for world literature
- 2.1Born-translated
- 2.2Untranslatability
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References -
Further essential reading
References
Apter, Emily
2013 Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability. London: Verso.
Auerbach, Erich
2003 Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, trans. by Willard D. Trask. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Cassin, Barbara et al.
2014 “Introduction.” In Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, ed. by Barbara Cassin, translation ed. by Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, and Michael Wood, trans. by Steven Rendall : xvii–xx. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 
Damrosch, David
2003 What Is World Literature? Princeton: Princeton University Press.
David, Jérôme
2013 “The Four Genealogies of World Literature”, trans. by Mary Claypool. In Approaches to World Literature, ed. by Joachim Küpper, 13–26. [Berlin]: Akademie.
Domínguez, César
2019 “Gualterio Escoto – A Writer across World-Literatures.” In Translation and World Literature, ed. by Susan Bassnett, 75–91. London: Routledge.
Even-Zohar, Itamar
1990a “Polysystem Theory.” Poetics Today 11 (1): 9–26.
1990b “The Position of Translated Literature within the Literary Polysystem.” Poetics Today 11 (1): 45–51.
Heilbron, Johan, and Gisèle Sapiro
2007 “Outline for a Sociology of Translation. Current Issues and Future Prospects.” In Constructing a Sociology of Translation, ed. by Michaela Wolf, and Alexandra Fukari, 93–107. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Moretti, Franco
2013 Distant Reading. London: Verso.
Purdy, Daniel
2014 “Goethe, Rémusat and the Chinese Novel: Translation and the Circulation of World Literature.” In German Literature as World Literature, ed. by Thomas O. Beebee, 43–60. New York: Bloosmbury.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty
2003 Death of a Discipline. New York: Columbia University Press.
Thomsen, Mads Rosendahl
2008 Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literatures. London: Continuum.
Venuti, Lawrence
2012 “World Literature and Translation Studies.” In The Routledge Companion to World Literature, ed. by Theo D’haen, David Damrosch, and Djelal Kadir, 180–193. London: Routledge.
2019 Contra Instrumentalism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Walkowitz, Rebecca L.
2015 Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature. New York: Columbia University Press.
Further essential reading
Apter, Emily
2006 The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Bassnett, Susan
2019 Translation and World Literature. London: Routledge.
Casanova, Pascale
2004 The World Republic of Letters, trans. by M. B. DeBevoise. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
D’haen, Theo
2012 The Routledge Concise History of World Literature. London: Routledge.
Helgesson, Stefan
2018 “Translation and the Circuits of World Literature.” In The Cambridge Companion to World Literature, ed. by Ben Etherington, and Jarad Zimbler, 85–99. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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