Francis Jones

List of John Benjamins publications for which Francis Jones plays a role.

Title

Poetry Translating as Expert Action: Processes, priorities and networks

Francis Jones

[Benjamins Translation Library, 93] 2011. xvi, 227 pp.

Subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies | Translation Studies

Articles (7) | Order by:

Lobejón Santos, Sergio and Francis Jones 2020 Creativity in collaborative poetry translating Translaboration: Exploring Collaboration in Translation and Translation in Collaboration, Alfer, Alexa and Cornelia Zwischenberger (eds.), pp. 282–306 | Article

This study examines how creative solutions to translation problems are negotiated and selected in ‘poettrios’ (teams consisting of a source poet, a target-language poet and a bilingual language mediator working from pre-prepared, literal translation drafts of poems), and compares creativity in… read more

Jones, Francis 2014 Poetry translators and regional vernacular voice: Belli’s Romanesco sonnets in English and Scots Target 26:1, pp. 32–62 | Article

This study investigates how poetry translators tackle source regional voice within their wider approach to poetic text. It analyses eleven translators’ ‘outputs’ of Scots and English translations from Giuseppe Belli’s 19th-century regionallanguage sonnets, which are set in working-class Rome. Each… read more

Jones, Francis 2011 Poetry translation Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 2, Gambier, Yves and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 117–122 | Article

Jones, Francis 2009 Embassy networks: Translating post-war Bosnian poetry into English Agents of Translation, Milton, John and Paul Bandia (eds.), pp. 301–325 | Article

This article is based on a web survey of on-line and print translations into English of poetry by writers from Bosnia since the 1992–1995 war. Combining insights from Actor Network Theory, Activity Theory and Goffman’s Social Game Theory, it examines the relationships between human and textual… read more

Jones, Francis 2004 Koster, Cees. 2000. From world to world: An armamentarium for the study of poetic discourse in translation Target 16:1, pp. 182–185 | Review

Jones, Francis 1989 Duff, Alan. 1989. Translation Target 1:2, pp. 257–259 | Review

Jones, Francis 1989 On Aboriginal Sufferance: A Process Model of Poetic Translation Target 1:2, pp. 183–199 | Article

This paper presents an empirical model of the processes involved in translating poetry. I suggest three main stages: Understanding, Interpretation and Creation. The Understanding stage involves close ST analysis. At the Interpretation stage the translator works item by item, though with continual… read more