...Sergio Waisman © 2001 University of Washington 2001 Sergio Waisman is assistant professor of Latin American literature and director of translation studies at San Diego State University. His most recent translation is The Absent City (2000), by Ricardo Piglia, for which he received...

...Wang Ning Although the term world literature encompasses texts composed in multiple languages, translation makes possible a body of literature from many linguistic and cultural backgrounds that circulates in international critical discourse and is broadly recognized as world literature. Thus...

.... Translation, Subjectivity, and Culture in France and England, 1600 - 1800 . By Hayes Julie Candler . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2009 . x + 321 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Reviews A New Literary History of America. Edited by Greil Marcus and Werner...

...Sun Yifeng Translation has played a critical role in forming the modern Chinese literary canon and continues to stimulate its change and expansion. It is instrumental to the exchange and synthesis of foreign narrative modes and aesthetic paradigms. There are obvious political, cultural...

...Josephine Bloomfield Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Benevolent Authoritarianism in Klaeber’s Beowulf: An Editorial Translation of Kingship Josephine Bloomfield Much of our understanding of Anglo-Saxon culture, even our...

...John Hennig Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 JOHN STUART BLACKIE’S TRANSLATION OF GOETHE’S JAHRMARKTSFEST ZU PLUNDERSWEILERN By JOHN HENNIG We can distinguish three phases of early Irish interest in classical German literature. The first...

... for solemn occasions like “the coronations of emperors and kings”; I have several times heard them sung over the radio to introduce “The Catholic Hour.” JOHN J. PARRY IJniversity of Illinois Machiawdli’s “The Prince”: An Elizabethan Translation...

... An Evaluation of the Earliest German Translation of ccDotaQuixote”: “Juncker Harnisch aus Fleckenland.” By CHRISTIANF. MELZ. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Volume 27, No. 5, 1945. Pp. 301-42. $0.50. The merits of this monograph...

...Benjamin A. Saltzman saltzman@uchicago.edu Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England . By Mary Kate Hurley . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2021 . xii + 212 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Translation entails...

...Terri DeYoung tdeyoung@uw.edu Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation . By Rebecca C. Johnson . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2020 . xiii + 270 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 This judicious and perceptive critical...

... later correctly con- sidered it mannered), which contradicts his statements on sound and meaning. Hughes seems oblivious to the problem. The translation of shtil’ (Dutch. “stil,” p. 34) as “calm seas” is correct but inept, for the word, as in much early Pasternak, is chosen primarily...

...Arnold L. Kerson Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 FRANCISCO JAVIER ALEGRE’S TRANSLATION OF BOILEAU~SART POETZQUE By ARNOLDL. KERSON Although Francisco Javier Alegre ( 1729-88) was a distinguished Mex- ican...

...Lawrence M. Price A Critical Bibliography of German Literature in English Translation 1481–1927, With Supplement Embracing the Years 1928–1935 . By Bayard Quincy Morgan. Second Edition, Completely Revised and Greatly Augmented. California: Stanford University Press, 1938. Pp. 773. $10.00...

...James Trainer Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 TIECK’S TRANSLATION OF THE RIVXLS By JAMES TRAINER Tieck’s earliest translation from English, the latter part of Conyers Middleton’s Life of Cicero, was undertaken in 1791...

...Patricia M. Gathercole Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 FIFTEENTH-CENTURY TRANSLATION THE DEVELOPMENT OF LAURENT DE PREMIERFAIT By PATRICIAM. GATHERCOLE Laurent de Premierfait merits attention as one of the most signifi- cant...

...Frank W. Jones Leo Max Kaiser. Hartford, Conn.: The Emerson Society, 1960. Pp. 30. Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 REVIEWS Thoreau’s Translation of “The Seven against Thebes” (1843). Edited by LEO MAXKAISER. Hartford, Conn...

...Ronald Waldron Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 THE MANUSCRIPTS OF TREVISA’S TRANSLATION OF THE POLYCHRONICON TOWARDS A NEW EDITION By RONALD WALDRON...

...Ralph Hanna, III Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 THE DIFFICULTY OF RICARDIAN PROSE TRANSLATION THE CASE OF THE LOLLARDS By RALPH HANNA111 I invoke as an authority for my topic...

...Patricia Parker Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 THE MERRY WVES OF WNDSORAND SHAKESPEARFAN TRANSLATION By PATRICIAPARKER LOCAL HUWISM: USSONS, PAGES, TONGUES Some years ago, in the course...

...Francesco Cordasco Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 SMOLLETT AND THE TRANSLATION OF THE DON QUIXOTE By FRANCESCOCORDASCO In December, 1754, Smollett wrote to his good friend Dr. Macau- lay : “Nay, I am put to very...