Translation, the Canon and Its Discontents : Version and Subversion.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Laying Down and Sending up the Canon -- Boileau Englished -- Novel and Translation in Spain during the Eighteenth Century and the Romantic Period -- The Brazilian Emperor's Translation Canon -- Part II: Negotiating National and Political Identities -- The Latvian Translation Scene -- Subversive Notes -- Translations of Robert Burns' Poetry in the Soviet Union -- Part III: Rethinking and Rewriting the Canon -- Adult Canonical Texts Adapted For Children -- Canon and the Case of The Jewel of Seven Stars, by Bram Stoker -- The Spanish Canon of English-Canadian Literature -- Part IV: A Practised Subversion -- Marilyn into marilyn -- "To Make Soundsense and Sensesound" -- Contributors -- Index.

This collection addresses the complex process by which translation and other forms of rewriting have contributed to canon formation, revision, destabilization, and dismantlement. Through the play between version and subversion, which is inherent to any form of rewriting, these essays - focusing on translations since the sixteenth century down to the present day - stress the role of translation and adaptation as potentially transformative mediations, capable of shaping and undermining identities. Such manipulation is deeply ambivalent, since it can be used as a means of disseminating the ideology of oppressive regimes at the expense of the source text; but it can also serve to garner attention to marginalised texts. This tense interplay between political, social, and aesthetic purposes almost inevitably generates discontents, which may turn out to be the outcome of translation in general. However, discontent is a relational concept, depending on where one stands in the field of competing positions that is the canon.

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