Translation and Stylistic Variation

Auteur

Helen Gibson is a translator and researcher from Northern Ireland. She finished her PhD on translation, dialect and Northern Irish poetry at the University of East Anglia in 2018, and published a chapter in Untranslatability: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2019). Her work concentrates on stylistic choices in translation, including the use of dialect and heteroglossia, and the intersection between translation and postcolonial studies.

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Translation and Stylistic Variation considers the ways in which translators use stylistic variation, analyzing the works of three Northern Irish poet-translators to look at how, in this variety, the translation process becomes a creative act by which translators can explore their own linguistic and cultural heritage.

Résumé
Translation and Stylistic Variation considers the ways in which translators use stylistic variation, analyzing the works of three Northern Irish poet-translators to look at how, in this variety, the translation process becomes a creative act by which translators can explore their own linguistic and cultural heritage.

Contenu

Acknowledgements; List of credits; List of acronyms and abbreviations; 1. Northern Ireland, translation and linguistic choice; 2. Visible dialect and the problem of interpretation; 3. Subversion: translation style performs linguistic hybridity; 4. Linguistic collision and renewal; 5. Conclusions: remaking texts via the local; Appendix 1 - The Road to Inver: original poems; Bibliography; Index