Translation and the Languages of Modernism: Gender, Politics, Language

By Steven G. Yao

Book Overview

This study examines the practice and functions of literary translation in Anglo-American Modernism. Rather than approaching translation as a trans-historical procedure for reproducing semantic meaning between different languages, Yao discusses how Modernist writers both conceived and employed translation as a complex strategy for accomplishing such feats as exploring the relationship between gender and poetry, creating an authentic national culture and determining the nature of a just government, all of which in turn led to developments in both poetic and novelistic form. Thus, translation emerges in this study as a literary practice crucial to the very development of Anglo-American Modernism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312295197
• ISBN13: 9780312295196
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.7"