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Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Everybody's Book, Or Gleanings Serious and Entertaining
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Pages : 724
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Pages : 724
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Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf
Author: Alexander Bubb
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198866275
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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The interest among Victorian readers in classical literature from Asia has been greatly underestimated. The popularity of the Arabian Nights and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is well documented. Yet this was also an era in which freethinkers consulted the Quran, in which schoolchildren were given abridgements of the Ramayana to read, in which names like 'Kalidasa' and 'Firdusi' were carved on the façades of public libraries, and in which women'sbook clubs discussed Japanese poetry. But for the most part, such readers were not consulting the specialist publications of scholarly orientalists. What then were the translations that catalysed these intercultural encounters? Based on a unique methodology marrying translation theory with empirical techniques developedby historians of reading, this book shines light for the first time on the numerous amateur translators or 'popularizers', who were responsible for making these texts accessible and disseminating them to the Victorian general readership.Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf explains the process whereby popular translations were written, published, distributed to bookshops and libraries, and ultimately consumed by readers. It uses the working papers and correspondence of popularizers to demonstrate their techniques and motivations, while the responses of contemporary readers are traced through the pencil marginalia they left behind in dozens of original copies. In spite of their typically limited knowledge ofsource-languages, Asian Classics argues that popularizers produced versions more respectful of the complexity, cultural difference, and fundamental untranslatability of Asian texts than the professional orientalists whose work they were often adapting. The responses of their readers, likewise, frequently deviatedfrom interpretive norms, and it is proposed that this combination of eccentric translators and unorthodox readers triggered 'flights of translation', whereby historical individuals can be seen to escape the hegemony of orientalist forms of knowledge.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198866275
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The interest among Victorian readers in classical literature from Asia has been greatly underestimated. The popularity of the Arabian Nights and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is well documented. Yet this was also an era in which freethinkers consulted the Quran, in which schoolchildren were given abridgements of the Ramayana to read, in which names like 'Kalidasa' and 'Firdusi' were carved on the façades of public libraries, and in which women'sbook clubs discussed Japanese poetry. But for the most part, such readers were not consulting the specialist publications of scholarly orientalists. What then were the translations that catalysed these intercultural encounters? Based on a unique methodology marrying translation theory with empirical techniques developedby historians of reading, this book shines light for the first time on the numerous amateur translators or 'popularizers', who were responsible for making these texts accessible and disseminating them to the Victorian general readership.Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf explains the process whereby popular translations were written, published, distributed to bookshops and libraries, and ultimately consumed by readers. It uses the working papers and correspondence of popularizers to demonstrate their techniques and motivations, while the responses of contemporary readers are traced through the pencil marginalia they left behind in dozens of original copies. In spite of their typically limited knowledge ofsource-languages, Asian Classics argues that popularizers produced versions more respectful of the complexity, cultural difference, and fundamental untranslatability of Asian texts than the professional orientalists whose work they were often adapting. The responses of their readers, likewise, frequently deviatedfrom interpretive norms, and it is proposed that this combination of eccentric translators and unorthodox readers triggered 'flights of translation', whereby historical individuals can be seen to escape the hegemony of orientalist forms of knowledge.
The Athenaeum
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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The Spectator
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Notes on books
Author: Longmans, Green and co
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Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Notes on Books
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Willis's Price Current. A Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books, Ancient and Modern ... No. CLIV[-CLXXXVII.]
Author: Willis and Sotheran
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Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Catalogue of Additions Made to the Library of Congress, from December 1, 1861 to December 1, 1862
Author: Library of Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Additions (Catalogue of additions) made to the Library of Congress
Author: Washington D.C., libr. of Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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