Opening book details…
Can I read Negotiating Translation and Transcreation of Children's Literature: From Alice to the Moomins (New Frontiers in Translation Studies) on EtoBox?
Negotiating Translation and Transcreation of Children's Literature: From Alice to the Moomins (New Frontiers in Translation Studies) by Joanna DybiecGajer; Riitta Oittinen; Małgorzata Kodura is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Negotiating Translation and Transcreation of Children's Literature: From Alice to the Moomins (New Frontiers in Translation Studies) about?
This book offers fresh critical insights to the field of children’s literature translation studies by applying the concept of transcreation, established in the creative industries of the globalized world, to bring to the fore the transformative, transgressional and creative aspects of rewriting for children and young audiences. This socially situated and culturally dependent practice involves ongoing complex negotiations between creativity and normativity, balancing text-related problems and genre conventions with readers’ expectations, constraints imposed by established, canonical translations and publishers’ demands. Focussing on the translator’s strategies and decision-making process, the book investigates phenomena where transcreation is especially at play in children’s literature, such as dual address, ambiguity, nonsense, humour, play on words and other creative language use; these also involve genre-specific requirements, for example, rhyme and rhythm in poetry. The book draws on a wide range of mostly Anglophone texts for children and their translations into languages of limited diffusion to demonstrate the numerous ways in which information, meaning and emotions are transf
Who reads Negotiating Translation and Transcreation of Children's Literature: From Alice to the Moomins (New Frontiers in Translation Studies)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Joanna DybiecGajer; Riitta Oittinen; Małgorzata Kodura
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789811524325
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Literary Criticism, Anthropology
Other editions & translations
More by Joanna DybiecGajer; Riitta Oittinen; Małgorzata Kodura
Browse all works by Joanna DybiecGajer; Riitta Oittinen; Małgorzata Kodura
Similar books
- Ovids Metamorphoses: A New Translation (World Literature in Translation) — C. Luke Soucy, Ovid (2023)
- New Perspectives in Media Translation : Transcreation in the Digital Age — Parthena Charalampidou Loukia Kostopoulou (2024)
- Children's Literature in Translation : Challenges and Strategies — Jan Van Coillie & Walter P. Verschueren (2022)
- Appraisal and the Transcreation of Marketing Texts: Persuasion in Chinese and English (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies) — Ho, Nga-Ki Mavis (2024)
- New Perspectives on Corpus Translation Studies (New Frontiers in Translation Studies) — Vincent X. Wang; Lily Lim; Defeng Li (2021)
- Multilingual Routes in Translation (New Frontiers in Translation Studies) — Tatiana Borisova Maria Sidiropoulou (2022)