Translation and the making of modern Russian literature / Brian James Baer.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Literatures, cultures, translation.
Main Author: Baer, Brian James (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2016.
Series:Literatures, cultures, translation.
Subjects:
Translating and interpreting > Russia.
Translating and interpreting > Soviet Union.
Translating and interpreting > Russia (Federation)
Russian literature > Translations > History and criticism.
European literature > Translations into Russian > History and criticism.
Translators in literature.
National characteristics, Russian, in literature.
Physical Description:ix, 213 pages ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction :Born in translation
  • Reading between, reading among: poet-translators in the age of the Decembrists
  • The translator as forger: (Mis)translating empire in Lermontov's Hero of Our Time and Roziner's A Certain Finkelmeyer
  • The boy who cried "Volk"!: (Mis)translating the nation in Dostoevsky's "Peasant Marei" and Iskander's "Pshada"
  • Refiguring translation: translator-heroines in Russian women's writing
  • Imitatio: translation and the making of Soviet subjects
  • Reading Wilde in Moscow, or le plus ça change: translations of Western gay literature in post-Soviet Russia
  • Unpacking Daniel Stein, or where post-Soviet meets postmodern.