Peter Jonathan Freeth

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter Jonathan Freeth plays a role.

Journal

Title

Literary translatorship in digital contexts

Edited by Wenqian Zhang, Motoko Akashi and Peter Jonathan Freeth

Special issue of Translation in Society 3:1 (2024) v, 132 pp.

Subjects Communication Studies | Interpreting | Sociology | Translation Studies

Articles

Zhang, Wenqian, Motoko Akashi and Peter Jonathan Freeth 2024 Locating the digital in literary translatorship Literary translatorship in digital contexts, Zhang, Wenqian, Motoko Akashi and Peter Jonathan Freeth (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Review article

Thanks to the inclusion of sociological perspectives in the development of translator studies, the roles played by literary translators in the movement of texts between languages and cultures, and their positions within the fields of power that govern these processes, have become increasingly… read more

Freeth, Peter Jonathan 2023 Peripheral vision and challenging invisibilities: Theoretical and methodological reflections on the “digitized turn” and “born-digital” sources in archives of translation and translators Translation in Society 2:2, pp. 213–234 | Article

This article presents a discussion of the theoretical and methodological challenges posed by digitization processes and born-digital sources within translation and translator studies research, particularly in archival contexts. It begins by demonstrating how the digitization of archives and… read more

Freeth, Peter Jonathan 2021 “Germany asks: is it OK to laugh at Hitler?”: Translating humour and Germanness in the paratexts of Er ist wieder da and Look Who’s Back Transnational Image Building: Linking up Translation Studies, Reception Studies and Imagology, Gentile, Paola, Fruzsina Kovács and Marike van der Watt (eds.), pp. 115–137 | Article

Within imagological approaches, paratexts can provide insights into how the Other of translated literature is presented to a new target audience. So, within a transnational context, such as Germany and Britain’s shared experience of the Second World War, can the source and target-culture… read more