Translation, Rewriting, and the Manipulation of Literary Fame (Routledge Translation Classics)

by André Lefevere (Author), Andre Lefevere (Author)

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  2016

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  One of the first books to shine a light on the broad scope of translation studies,

  this Routledge Translation Classic is widely regarded as a pillar of the discipline.

  Authored by one of the most infl uential translation theorists of the twentieth

  century, Translation, Rewriting, and the Manipulation of Literary Fame shows

  how rewriting - translation, anthologization, historiography, criticism, editing -

  infl uences the reception and canonization of works of literature.

  Firmly placing the production and reception of literature within the wider

  framework of a culture and its history, Andre Lefevere explores how rewriting

  manipulates works of literature to ideological and artistic ends, and demonstrates

  how rewriting a text can give it a new, sometimes subversive, historical or

  literary status.

  Ranging across various literatures, including Classical Latin, French, and

  German, and here reissued with a new foreword by Scott G. Williams, this is a

  seminal text for all students and specialists in translation studies, literary theory,

  and comparative and world literature.