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Penguin Classics and the Canonization of Chinese Literature in English Translation by Menghan, Qian

“…This article examines the process by which translated Chinese literature becomes 'canonical' in the anglophone literary system. Adopting a notion of the…”
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Soviet Language in English Retranslations: Mikhail Bulgakov's The Heart of a Dog by Kaloh Vid, Natalia, Žagar-Šoštarić, Petra

“…Following Antoine Berman it would normally be assumed that the early translations of a given text will be more target-oriented and domesticating than later…”
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The Retitling of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Niggers in Anglophone and Lusophone Markets by Lourenço Hanes, Vanessa Lopes

“…Agatha Christie's detective fiction has met with great success beyond anglophone markets, having been translated and retranslated in forty-four languages,…”
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Sir Tobie Matthew's Flaming Hart: Translating St Teresa for the English Catholic Exiles by Norton, Roy

“…This article examines The Flaming Hart (1642), the English translation of St Teresa of Ávila's Vida , produced by Sir Tobie Matthew at the behest of the…”
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The French Translations of Thomson's The Seasons, 1754–1818 by Van De Walle, Kwinten

“…Between 1754 and 1818 Thomson's poem was translated into French four times in full and more often in part. This article surveys this history, characterizing…”
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Petronius on Dreams: 300 Years of English Translations by Gillespie, Stuart

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Translating Social and Material Culture: Sanditon in Spanish by López, Isis Herrero

“…A plenitude of references to the institutions and conventions of contemporary social life and material culture presents challenges to all translators of Jane…”
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Saro-Wiwa's Language of Dissent: Translating between African Englishes by Kendall, Judy

“…This article calls attention to the essential translational aspect of linguistic experimentation in literary uses of African Englishes in colonial and…”
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Penguin Books and the Translation of Spanish and Latin American Poetry, 1956-1979 by Boll, Tom

“…This article accounts for the social interactions that gave rise to Penguin's translation of Spanish and Latin American Poetry during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s…”
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Catholic Translation and Protestant Translation: The Reception of Luis de Granada's Devotional Prose in Early Modern England by Castillo, Miriam

“…Through a survey of the translations produced by Richard Hopkins, Francis Meres, Thomas Lodge, and others, this essay investigates the various audiences Luis…”
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The Heinemann International Library, 1890-7 by Rees, Kathy

“…William Heinemann's first major publishing venture was the 'Heinemann International Library' edited by Edmund Gosse. This grew into a series of twenty works of…”
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Trading and Translating: English Literature in Rouen, 1730-56 by Schabert, Ina

“…In this period the city of Rouen is known for commercial activity and for certain literary connections, but its status as a centre of sorts for English-French…”
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Five Unknown English Translations of Poems by George Buchanan, c. 1670 by Gillespie, Stuart

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Five Unknown English Translations of Poems by George Buchanan, c.1670 by Gillespie, Stuart

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Wordsworth's Aeneid and the Influence of its Eighteenth-Century Predecessors by Widmer, Matthias

“…William Wordsworth's attempt at translating Virgil's Aeneid reached as far as Book 4, and mostly survives in manuscript drafts. The literary influences behind…”
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Trojan Pretenders: Dryden's The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache, Jacobitism, and Translatio Imperii by Calvert, Ian

“…Dryden's account of the infant Astyanax in his translation of the Hector and Andromache episode from Book 6 of the Iliad incorporates references to Virgil's…”
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De Rosis Nascentibus from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century: A Collection of English Translations by Gillespie, Stuart

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Warren Hastings as a Translator of Latin Poetry by Gillespie, Stuart

“…Warren Hastings composed occasional short verse translations and imitations of classical Latin texts over many years, perhaps particularly in later life…”
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Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, translated by Nicholas Pasternak Slater; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession, translated by Peter Carson; The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, translated by Roger Cockrell; Hadji Murat, translated by Kyril Zinovieff and Jenny Hughes by Maguire, Muireann

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When Spring is not a Spring: Revisiting Feinstein's Tsvetaeva by Whyte, Christopher

“…Elaine Feinstein's translations of Tsvetaeva have acquired a near-classic status. Paul Muldoon pointed out, however, that in one case a stanza from one of the…”
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