Virginia Woolf and the Migrations of Language
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1107010187
ISBN-13
9781107010185
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
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GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 6th, 2011
Print length
228 Pages
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510 grams
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22.80 x 16.10 x 1.70 cms
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Dalgarno offers an extended discussion of the influence of the foreign writers whom Woolf considered most important to her work - Sophocles, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Proust, from the perspective of translation theory.
Virginia Woolf's rich and imaginative use of language was partly a result of her keen interest in foreign literatures and languages - mainly Greek and French, but also Russian, German and Italian. As a translator she naturally addressed herself both to contemporary standards of translation within the university, but also to readers like herself. In Three Guineas she ranged herself among German scholars who used Antigone to critique European politics of the 1930s. Orlando outwits the censors with a strategy that focuses on Proust's untranslatable word. The Waves and The Years show her looking ahead to the problems of postcolonial society, where translation crosses borders. In this in-depth study of Woolf and European languages and literatures, Emily Dalgarno opens up a rewarding new way of reading her prose.
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