Baer, Brian James.

Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (225 pages) - Literatures, Cultures, Translation Series . - Literatures, Cultures, Translation Series .

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Born in Translation -- 1 Reading Between, Reading Among: Poet-Translators in the Age of the Decembrists -- 2 The Translator as Forger: (Mis)Translating Empire in Lermontov's Hero of Our Time and Roziner's A Certain Finkelmeyer -- 3 The Boy Who Cried "Volk"!: (Mis)Translating the Nation in Dostoevsky's "Peasant Marei" and Iskander's "Pshada" -- 4 Refiguring Translation: Translator-Heroines in Russian Women's Writing -- 5 Imitatio: Translation and the Making of Soviet Subjects -- 6 Reading Wilde in Moscow, or Le plus ça change: Translations of Western Gay Literature in Post-Soviet Russia -- 7 Unpacking Daniel Stein: Where Post-Soviet Meets Postmodern -- Bibliography -- Index.

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European literature - Translations into Russian - History and criticism.


Electronic books.

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