In the last 25 years, the investigation of literary translation has gradually developed into a major branch within literary studies. This growing interest for translational phenomena is largely due to recent tendencies in literary historiography which have rightly stressed the relevance of imported and/or translated texts for the structure and the evolution of specific, so-called "national" literatures. Indeed, translated texts often function as exemplary models for both the production and the evaluation of literary texts and text models (genres).

References

Hermans, Theo

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