Translation and paratexts

Batchelor, Kathryn

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“…He responded with his usual dry wit -"I'm delighted that you find so much to say about translation thresholds" -and gave the green light. 'Translation thresholds' was the working title of the book that became Translation and Paratexts (Batchelor 2018), and this chapter represents a further contribution to that research. For even with Theo's generous agreement, I was unable to fit everything that I wanted to say about translation thresholds into that book.…”

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Unsettling Translation

Baker¹

2022

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This collection engages with translation and interpreting from a diverse but complementary range of perspectives, in dialogue with the seminal work of Theo Hermans. A foundational figure in the field, Hermans's scholarly engagement with translation spans several key areas, including history of translation, metaphor, norms, ethics, ideology, methodology, and the critical reconceptualization of the positioning of the translator and of translation itself as a social and hermeneutic practice. Those he has mentored or inspired through his lectures and pioneering publications over the years are now household names in the field, with many represented in this volume. They come together here both to critically re-examine translation as a social, political and conceptual site of negotiation and to celebrate his contributions to the field.The volume opens with an extended introduction and personal tribute by the editor, which situates Hermans's work within the broader development of critical thinking about translation from the 1970s onward. This is followed by five parts, each addressing a theme that has been broadly taken up by Theo Hermans in his own work: translational epistemologies; historicizing translation; performing translation; centres and peripheries; and digital encounters.This is important reading for translation scholars, researchers and advanced students on courses covering key trends and theories in translation studies, and those engaging with the history of the discipline.The rather smooth, unruffled picture of translation that I have just painted has an 'other' to it, a more unsettling but also a much more interesting and intriguing side. The smooth, unruffled picture may be part of the conventional perception and self-presentation of translation, but it papers over the cracks. I want to try and poke my finger into at least some of these cracks. And the reason for doing so lies in the recognition that translation, for all its presumed secondariness, derives its force from the fact that it is still our only answer to, and our only escape from, Babel.

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Unsettling Translation

Baker¹

2022

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“…In recent years, paratexts have become subjects of interest for translation scholars. Several seminal studies have focused in particular on paratextual material in translated texts (see, for example, Watts, 2000;Pellatt, 2014;Gil-Bardají et al, 2012;Armstrong, 2013;Batchelor, 2018). These studies have demonstrated that paratexts can reflect the ideological contingencies behind translational practice , trace the socio-cultural context dictating literary exchanges (Naudé, 2013), reveals the agency of translators (Tahir-Gürçağlar, 2002), serve documentary functions (Dimitriu, 2009), and promote crosscultural communication (McRae, 2012;Chen, 2018).…”

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Paratextual Framing for Translating and Disseminating the Ming novel Jinpingmei in the Anglophone world

Xiao

2022

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This paper examines the paratextual framing of the English translations of Jinpingmei (JPM). The primary focus is on the ways in which two remarkable translations are (re)packaged for the intended audience in the Anglophone world. Drawing upon Genette’s paratextuality theory and contemporary translation theories, the paper attempts to investigate whether and how paratextual elements can (re)shape the two translations and foster the representation of alterity. After presenting the theoretical framework, the paper focuses on the peritexts surrounding the core texts. It argues that peritextual manipulation not merely serves marketing ends but highlights translators’ visibility and ideological intervention in producing translations of premodern Chinese texts in different historical settings in the receiving context. It concludes that translational peritexts can be an effective means to enact cross-cultural construction and that the latest translation demonstrates a higher level of peritextual visibility in sustaining the genre of Chinese vernacular fiction and in promoting images of Chinese culture in the receiving context.

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“…Külön vizsgálat tárgyát képezhetik éppen ezért a fordító diszkurzív jelenlétének, "láthatóságának" (vagy éppen láthatatlanságának) a jelei, illetve ezzel összefüggésben a gender szempontok nyomatékosítása vagy marginalizálása is (von FLoToW ed. 2011, BaTchELor 2018.…”

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A név mint paratextus a műfordítás gyakorlatában

Benyovszky

2021

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The study examines issues related to translating an author’s name and character names when these are considered paratexts. The introduction briefly describes the interdisciplinary context of study into paratextuality, pointing to the research areas emerging at the intersection of literary theory, translation studies, and onomastics. The paper then analyzes the translation methods used in the case of authors’ names, pseudonyms, title characters, and intertextual names in separate sections, focusing on publications of popular literature and 20th-century Hungarian prose, especially Zsigmond Móricz, Dezső Kosztolányi and Jenő Rejtő in foreign languages. Following the criteria described in the literature review, the study examines verbal paratexts and the visual paratexts of the covers (typography, cover image).

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Translation and paratexts

Cited by 7 publications

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Unsettling Translation

Unsettling Translation

Paratextual Framing for Translating and Disseminating the Ming novel Jinpingmei in the Anglophone world

A név mint paratextus a műfordítás gyakorlatában

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