Virginia Kwok
List of John Benjamins publications for which Virginia Kwok plays a role.
Articles
2019 Ethics and aesthetics are one: Creative literary translation in the post-modern world Babel 65:2, pp. 249–263 | Article
In the post-modern world where thinking of pluralism and relativism is prevalent (Honeysett 2002), fundamental values such as respect for life pertinent to the health and welfare of humanity should remain unchanged in order to preserve the culture from corrosion. In this paper, through examining… read more
2016 Faithfulness in translation of children’s literature: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Chinese Babel 62:2, pp. 278–299 | Article
Faithfulness as a principle of translation has been upheld for a long time despite many debates among scholars in the field. In the context of translating children’s literature, this poses further challenges and recent studies have yet to reach a conclusion (Epstein 2012; Nikolajeva 2011;… read more