Cultural transfer through translation : the circulation of enlightened thought in Europe by means of translation /
Cultural transfer through translation : the circulation of enlightened thought in Europe by means of translation /
edited by Stefanie Stockhorst.
- 1 online resource (343 pages)
- Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 131 0929-6999 ; .
- Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 131. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2010, ISBN: 9789004357921. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Cultural transfer through translation: a current perspective in Enlightenment studies / Translation in theory and practice: the case of Johann David Michaelis’s prize essay on language and opinions (1759) / Plagiarism and originality in painting: Joshua Reynolds’s concept of imitation and Enlightenment translation theory / From general history to national history: the transformations of William Guthrie’s and John Gray’s A General History of the World (1736-1765) in Continental Europe / Melchiorre Cesarotti Il Fanatismo ossia Maometto profeta: tragedia di Voltaire (1742) – la traduction italienne de la tragédie voltairienne Le Fanatisme ou Mahomet le prophète (1741) / ‘Translating to the moment’ – marketing and Anglomania: the first German translation of Richardson’s Clarissa (1747/1748) / Traduire la pensée utopique: le transfert des paradigmes de L’An 2440 et Der goldne Spiegel / Uncanny translations, uncanny productivity: Walpole, Schiller and Kahlert / Where Werther went: what happens when a ‘minor’ literature transposes a ‘major’ character / Early English translations of Italian opera (1711-1750) / Translating discourses of the Enlightenment: transcultural language skills and cross-references in Swedish and German eighteenth-century learned journals / Science for the public: the translation of popular texts on experimental philosophy into the Dutch language in mid-eighteenth century / Translated sociabilities of print in eighteenth-century Spain / D’Holbach et les déistes anglais: la construction des ‘lumières radicales’ à la fin des années 1760 / Paeans to progress: Arthur Young’s travel accounts in German translation / Did Adam Ferguson inspire Friedrich Schiller’s philosophy of play? An exercise in tracking the itinerary of an idea / Biographical notes. Stefanie Stockhorst -- Avi S. Lifschitz -- Christina Oberstebrink -- Monika Baár -- Saskia S. Wiedner -- Astrid Krake -- Andreas Dittrich -- Barry Murnane -- John R. J. Eyck -- Pierre Degott -- Andreas Önnerfors -- Huib J. Zuidervaart -- John Stone -- Mladen Kozul -- Alison E. Martin -- Fania Oz-Salzberger --
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Given that the dissemination of enlightened thought in Europe was mostly effected through translations, the present collection of essays focuses on how its cultural adaptation took place in various national contexts. For the first time, the theoretical model of ‘cultural transfer’ (Espagne/Werner) is applied to the eighteenth century: The intercultural dynamics of the Enlightenment become manifest in the transformation process between the original and target cultures, be it by way of acculturation, creative enhancement, or misunderstanding. Resulting in shifts of meaning, translations offer a key not just to contemporary translation practice but to the discursive network of the European Enlightenment in general. The case studies united here explore both how translations contributed to the transnational standardisation of certain key concepts, values and texts, and how they reflect national specifications of enlightened discourses. Hence, the volume contributes to Enlightenment studies, at least as much as to historical translation studies.
Texts chiefly in English, with 3 contributions in French.
9789042029514
10.1163/9789042029514 DOI
2010279639
Translating and interpreting--Europe.
European literature--Translations--History and criticism.--18th century
Enlightenment--Europe.
Europe--Intellectual life--18th century.
P306.8.E85 / C85 2010
418.02094
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Cultural transfer through translation: a current perspective in Enlightenment studies / Translation in theory and practice: the case of Johann David Michaelis’s prize essay on language and opinions (1759) / Plagiarism and originality in painting: Joshua Reynolds’s concept of imitation and Enlightenment translation theory / From general history to national history: the transformations of William Guthrie’s and John Gray’s A General History of the World (1736-1765) in Continental Europe / Melchiorre Cesarotti Il Fanatismo ossia Maometto profeta: tragedia di Voltaire (1742) – la traduction italienne de la tragédie voltairienne Le Fanatisme ou Mahomet le prophète (1741) / ‘Translating to the moment’ – marketing and Anglomania: the first German translation of Richardson’s Clarissa (1747/1748) / Traduire la pensée utopique: le transfert des paradigmes de L’An 2440 et Der goldne Spiegel / Uncanny translations, uncanny productivity: Walpole, Schiller and Kahlert / Where Werther went: what happens when a ‘minor’ literature transposes a ‘major’ character / Early English translations of Italian opera (1711-1750) / Translating discourses of the Enlightenment: transcultural language skills and cross-references in Swedish and German eighteenth-century learned journals / Science for the public: the translation of popular texts on experimental philosophy into the Dutch language in mid-eighteenth century / Translated sociabilities of print in eighteenth-century Spain / D’Holbach et les déistes anglais: la construction des ‘lumières radicales’ à la fin des années 1760 / Paeans to progress: Arthur Young’s travel accounts in German translation / Did Adam Ferguson inspire Friedrich Schiller’s philosophy of play? An exercise in tracking the itinerary of an idea / Biographical notes. Stefanie Stockhorst -- Avi S. Lifschitz -- Christina Oberstebrink -- Monika Baár -- Saskia S. Wiedner -- Astrid Krake -- Andreas Dittrich -- Barry Murnane -- John R. J. Eyck -- Pierre Degott -- Andreas Önnerfors -- Huib J. Zuidervaart -- John Stone -- Mladen Kozul -- Alison E. Martin -- Fania Oz-Salzberger --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Given that the dissemination of enlightened thought in Europe was mostly effected through translations, the present collection of essays focuses on how its cultural adaptation took place in various national contexts. For the first time, the theoretical model of ‘cultural transfer’ (Espagne/Werner) is applied to the eighteenth century: The intercultural dynamics of the Enlightenment become manifest in the transformation process between the original and target cultures, be it by way of acculturation, creative enhancement, or misunderstanding. Resulting in shifts of meaning, translations offer a key not just to contemporary translation practice but to the discursive network of the European Enlightenment in general. The case studies united here explore both how translations contributed to the transnational standardisation of certain key concepts, values and texts, and how they reflect national specifications of enlightened discourses. Hence, the volume contributes to Enlightenment studies, at least as much as to historical translation studies.
Texts chiefly in English, with 3 contributions in French.
9789042029514
10.1163/9789042029514 DOI
2010279639
Translating and interpreting--Europe.
European literature--Translations--History and criticism.--18th century
Enlightenment--Europe.
Europe--Intellectual life--18th century.
P306.8.E85 / C85 2010
418.02094