Translating Mind Matters in Twenty-First-Century French Women’s Writing
Title | Translating Mind Matters in Twenty-First-Century French Women’s Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Ellender |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 2020-01-28 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1527546411 |
Attitudes towards, and strategies for treating, those who suffer from abnormal mental states have evolved considerably over the centuries, and these are reflected in the various literary genres of all eras. In its introduction, this book provides a concise, yet thorough, overview of this phenomenon, citing key examples taken from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Each of the eight chapters which constitute Part One of this study then focuses on representations of a particular mental health issue in a work of literature produced by a twenty-first-century French woman writer. Considering the causes and symptoms of the given condition, it situates the representation of its treatment in relation to current attitudes and practices in the West. Inspired by the concept that reading literature which concentrates on mental health problems can be both informative and of comfort to those affected by such issues, Part Two provides detailed textual analyses, and discusses the English-language versions, of four works examined in Part One which already exist in translation. Suggesting how these may be of benefit to an Anglophone readership, it recommends that the four remaining texts, which may be equally helpful, are suitable for translation into English.
Transgression(s) in Twenty-First-Century Women's Writing in French
Title | Transgression(s) in Twenty-First-Century Women's Writing in French PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2020-11-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004442715 |
Transgression(s) in Twenty-First-Century Women's Writing in French analyses the literary transgressions of women’s writing in French since the turn of the twenty-first century in the works of both established figures and the most exciting and innovative authors from across the francosphère. Transgression(s) in Twenty-First-Century Women's Writing in French étudie les transgressions littéraires dans l’écriture des femmes en français depuis le début du XXIe siècle dans les œuvres de figures bien établies aussi bien que chez les auteures les plus innovantes de la francosphère.
Voices in the Evening
Title | Voices in the Evening PDF eBook |
Author | Natalia Ginzburg |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 119 |
Release | 2021-05-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811231011 |
From one of Italy’s greatest writers, a stunning novel “filled with shimmering, risky, darting observation” (Colm Tóibín) After WWII, a small Italian town struggles to emerge from under the thumb of Fascism. With wit, tenderness, and irony, Elsa, the novel’s narrator, weaves a rich tapestry of provincial Italian life: two generations of neighbors and relatives, their gossip and shattered dreams, their heartbreaks and struggles to find happiness. Elsa wants to imagine a future for herself, free from the expectations and burdens of her town’s history, but the weight of the past will always prove unbearable, insistently posing the question: “Why has everything been ruined?”
Sympathy for the Traitor
Title | Sympathy for the Traitor PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Polizzotti |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2018-04-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0262346710 |
An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't. For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty—summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment. In this nuanced and provocative study, Mark Polizzotti attempts to reframe the debate along more fruitful lines. Eschewing both these easy polarities and the increasingly abstract discourse of translation theory, he brings the main questions into clearer focus: What is the ultimate goal of a translation? What does it mean to label a rendering “faithful”? (Faithful to what?) Is something inevitably lost in translation, and can something also be gained? Does translation matter, and if so, why? Unashamedly opinionated, both a manual and a manifesto, his book invites usto sympathize with the translator not as a “traitor” but as the author's creative partner. Polizzotti, himself a translator of authors from Patrick Modiano to Gustave Flaubert, explores what translation is and what it isn't, and how it does or doesn't work. Translation, he writes, “skirts the boundaries between art and craft, originality and replication, altruism and commerce, genius and hack work.” In Sympathy for the Traitor, he shows us how to read not only translations but also the act of translation itself, treating it not as a problem to be solved but as an achievement to be celebrated—something, as Goethe put it, “impossible, necessary, and important.”
Degenerative Realism
Title | Degenerative Realism PDF eBook |
Author | Christy Wampole |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2020-06-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0231546033 |
A new strain of realism has emerged in France. The novels that embody it represent diverse fears—immigration and demographic change, radical Islam, feminism, new technologies, globalization, American capitalism, and the European Union—but these books, often best-sellers, share crucial affinities. In their dystopian visions, the collapse of France, Europe, and Western civilization is portrayed as all but certain and the literary mode of realism begins to break down. Above all, they depict a degenerative force whose effects on the nation and on reality itself can be felt. Examining key novels by Michel Houellebecq, Frédéric Beigbeder, Aurélien Bellanger, Yann Moix, and other French writers, Christy Wampole identifies and critiques this emergent tendency toward “degenerative realism.” She considers the ways these writers draw on social science, the New Journalism of the 1960s, political pamphlets, reportage, and social media to construct an atmosphere of disintegration and decline. Wampole maps how degenerative realist novels explore a world contaminated by conspiracy theories, mysticism, and misinformation, responding to the internet age’s confusion between fact and fiction with a lament for the loss of the real and an unrelenting emphasis on the role of the media in crafting reality. In a time of widespread populist anxieties over the perceived decline of the French nation, this book diagnoses the literary symptoms of today’s reactionary revival.
New Women’s Writing in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe
Title | New Women’s Writing in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Rosalind Marsh |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 675 |
Release | 2020-12-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1527563367 |
Since the late 1980s, there has been an explosion of women’s writing in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe greater than in any other cultural period. This book, which contains contributions by scholars and writers from many different countries, aims to address the gap in literature and debate that exists in relation to this subject. We investigate why women’s writing has become so prominent in post-socialist countries, and enquire whether writers regard their gender as a burden, or, on the contrary, as empowering. We explore the relationship in contemporary women’s writing between gender, class, and nationality, as well as issues of ethnicity and post-colonialism.
Encyclopedia of Life Writing
Title | Encyclopedia of Life Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Margaretta Jolly |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 1141 |
Release | 2013-12-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1136787445 |
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.