Reading, Translating, Rewriting: Angela Carter's Translational Poetics

by Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère

Uncovers the neglected role of translation in Angela Carter's fairy-tale-inspired fiction.

In translating Charles Perrault's seventeenth-century Histoires ou contes du temps pass , avec des Moralit s into English, Angela Carter worked to modernize the language and message of the tales before rewriting many of them for her own famous collection of fairy tales for adults, The Bloody Chamber, published two years later...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814336345
• ISBN13: 9780814336342
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"