Contexts of Russian Literary Translation
Edited by Julie Hansen and Susanna Witt
Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 11:1 (2016) v, 130 pp.
Susanna Witt
List of John Benjamins publications for which Susanna Witt plays a role.
Title
Subjects Interpreting | Translation Studies
Articles
2016 Introduction Contexts of Russian Literary Translation, Hansen, Julie and Susanna Witt (eds.), pp. 1–3 | Article
2016 Byron’s Don Juan in Russian and the ‘Soviet school of translation’ Contexts of Russian Literary Translation, Hansen, Julie and Susanna Witt (eds.), pp. 23–43 | Article
Acknowledging the significance of context and of translators as agents, this article is concerned with the establishment of ‘translational facts’ (Toury 1995) and its relation to canon formation in Russian culture of the Soviet period. The translational facts examined are the two complete… read more
2011 Between the lines: Totalitarianism and translation in the USSR Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts: Literary translation in Eastern Europe and Russia, Baer, Brian James (ed.), pp. 149–170 | Article
Literary translation in the Soviet Union may well be the largest more or less coherent project of translation the world has seen to date – largest in terms of geographical range, number of languages involved and timespan; coherent in the sense of ideological framework (alllowing for fluctuations… read more