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Lefevere, André. 1996. Translation and canon formation: nine decades of drama in the United States. In Álvarez, Román and Carmen-África Vidal, eds. Translation, power, subversion (Topics in Translation 8). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. pp. 138–155.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Keywords
analysis | canon | corpus=corpora | drama | historical approach=historiography=history | influence=impact=effect | literary approach=literary discourse=literature | rewriting=ré-écriture=réécriture | translation

Abstract

In the present paper, Lefevere reflects upon how translation influences and has influenced the construction of a literary canon, using examples from the corpus of drama anthologies published in the United States between 1900 and 1988.
Source : J. Vluijmans