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Milton, John. 2000. Translation and popular culture. In D'hulst, Lieven and John Milton, eds. Reconstructing cultural memory: translation, scripts, literacy (Textxet. Studies in Comparative Literature 31). Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp. 97–109.

Publication type

Article in jnl/bk

Publication language

English

Keywords

adaptation | literary approach=literary discourse=literature | popular culture

Abstract

This paper moves away from ‘highbrow’ translation to look at other categories, and at what happens when a translation from high culture is adapted to mass culture. The paper looks into Kitsch and Midcult, Factory Translation and other issues.

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