Perspectives on Retranslation

Perspectives on Retranslation: Ideology, Paratexts, Methods explores retranslation from a variety of aspects and reflects methodological and theoretical developments in the field. Featuring eleven chapters, each offering a unique approach, the book presents a well-rounded analysis of contemporary issues in retranslation. It brings together case studies and examples from a range of contexts including France, the UK, Spain, the US, Brazil, Greece, Poland, modern Turkey, and the Ottoman Empire. The chapters highlight a diversity of cultural settings and illustrate the assumptions and epistemologies underlying the manifestations of retranslation in various cultures and time periods. The book expressly challenges a Eurocentric view and treats retranslation in all of its complexity by using a variety of methods, including quantitative and statistical analysis, bibliographical studies, reception analysis, film analysis, and musicological, paratextual, textual, and norm analysis. The chapters further show the dominant effect of ideology on macro and micro translation decisions, which comes into sharp relief in the specific context of retranslation.

Özlem Berk Albachten is professor of Translation Studies at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul. She has published widely on Turkish translation history and is the author of Translation and Westernization in Turkey: from the 1840s to the 1980s (2004) and Kuramlar Isiginda Açiklamali Çeviribilim Terimcesi (2005 - Translation Terminology in Light of Theories). S-ehnaz Tahir Gürc-ag-lar is professor of translation studies and teaches at the graduate programs at Glendon College, York University and Bogaziçi University in Istanbul. Her main fields of interest are translation history, ideology and translation and periodical studies. She is the author of The Politics and Poetics of Translation in Turkey, 1923-1960 (2008).

Introduction Özlem Berk Albachten and Sehnaz Tahir Gürçaglar Section I. Ideology and Censorship in Retranslation 1. Retranslating Lorca's "Ode to Walt Whitman" from Taboo to Totem Andrew Samuel Walsh 2. Retranslating D. H. Lawrence in the 21st-Century: From Censorship to Marketability Nathalie Ségeral 3. Retranslating in a Censorial Context: H.C. Armstrong's Grey Wolf in Turkish Ceyda Özmen Section II. Paratextual Studies in Retranslation 4. Repackaging, Retranslation, and Intersemiotic Translation: A Turkish Novel in Greece Arzu Eker-Roditakis 5. Extratextual Factors Shaping Preconceptions about Retranslation: Bruno Schulz in English Zofia Ziemann Section III. Towards New Objects, Methods, and Concepts 6. Critical Edition as Retranslation: Mediating -Ali Ufüi's Notation Collections (c. 1630-1670) Judith I. Haug 7. Readers and Retranslation. Transformation in Readers' Habituses in Turkey from the 1930s to 2010s Müge Isiklar Koçak and Ahu Selin Erkul Yagci 8. Translation Modalities Method in Retranslation Analysis: A Paixão Segundo G. H. in English. Julieta Widman 9. Towards an Empirical Methodology for Identifying Plagiarism in Retranslation Mehmet Sahin, Derya Duman, Damla Kales, Sabri Gürses, and David Woolls Section IV. Retranslation History and Bibliographical Studies 10. Retranslation History and its Contribution to Translation History: The Case of Russian-Dutch Retranslation Piet Van Poucke 11. The Making and Reading of a Bibliography of Retranslations Özlem Berk Albachten and Sehnaz Tahir Gürçaglar