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Publication details [#9172]
Frank, Armin Paul and Helga Eßmann. 1990. Translation anthologies: a paradigmatic medium of international literary transfer. In Hoffmann, Gerhardt, Heinz Ickstadt, Horst Kruse, Peter Lösche, Klaus Lubbers and Günter Moltmann, eds. Focus on literary translations. Special issue of Amerikastudien - American Studies. Ein Vierteljahresschrift (A quarterly) 35 (1): 21–34.
Publication type
Article in Special issue
Publication language
English
Abstract
Though one of the most important media for the dissemination of literature and, at the same time, an important factor in the dynamics and statics of literary life, anthologies have long been neglected by literary historians. The present paper joins the few recent efforts at revaluation by offering a publication-oriented model for the study of untranslated literature, based on a corpus of 20th-centuryAmerican and British collections of poetry. While this model cannot directly be applied to translation anthologies, it can be adapted by taking the essential "duplexities" of literary translation into account, the most important one being that translations, in comparison to "original compositions", are not "inner-directed", they are, rather, "derived" re-compositions that necessarily deviate from the respective source texts. If this distinction and the others delineated in this paper are taken into account, translation anthologies can be studied as a paradigmatic medium of international transfer in most countries.
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