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Publication details [#1996]

Frank, Armin Paul, ed. 1989. Die literarische Übersetzung: der lange Schatten kurzer Geschichten. Amerikanische Kurzprosa in deutschen Übersetzungen [Literary translation: the long shadow of short stories: American short stories in German translation] (Göttinger Beiträge zur Internationalen Übersetzungsforschung 3). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag. ix + 325 pp.
Publication type
Edited volume
Publication language
German
Source language
Target language
Main ISBN
3-503-03005-0

Abstract

This edited volume aims to provide a systematic analysis of more than one hundred German translations of American short stories written between 1792 and 1987. The main goal hereby is to shed some light on their reception in the German language system. Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe and Mark Twain are but a few examples of authors discussed. Some of the more specific issues discussed include landscape descriptions in Washington Irving’s Rip van Winkle, the reaction of German translators to American humour, some issues in literary stylistics and other topics.
Source : J. Vluijmans

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