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Publication details [#1484]

Sutton, Martin. 1996. The sin-complex: a critical study of English versions of the Grimm's Kinder- und Hausmärchen in the nineteenth century (Schriften der Brüder Grimm-Gesellschaft 28). Kassel: Brüder Grimm-Gesellschaft. viii + 352 pp.
Publication type
Monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
19th century | children's literature=juvenile literature | comparative research=contrastive research | fairy tale | faithfulness=fidelity | philological approach=philology | translator=translator's role=translator studies
Source language
German
Target language
English
Person as a subject
Grimm, Brothers
Title as subject
Kinder- und Hausmärchen
Main ISBN
3-929633-28-0

Abstract

This book aims to shed some light on thirteen English translations of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen written by the brothers Grimm in the nineteenth century. The book sets out to investigate the way in which the respective translators performed their work and what choices they made, their faithfulness to the source text and whether deviations from the source text were warranted. What is also fundamental in the study is how the respective translators coped with cruel, violent, blasphemous or sexually explicit scenes in the source text.
Source : J. Vluijmans

Reviewed by

Fisher, Rodney W. 1998. Review of The sin-complex: a critical study of English versions of the Grimm's Kinder- und Hausmärchen in the nineteenth century. Babel 44 (3) : 274–277.
Dollerup, Cay. 1998. Review of The sin-complex: a critical study of English versions of the Grimm's Kinder- und Hausmärchen in the nineteenth century. Target 10 (2) : 371–377.