Angela Carter Translator and Translated

In the Workshop of Creation

Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Marie Emilie Walz

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040669839
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature
• Index: Literature

Angela Carter Translator and Translated situates the British writer Angela Carter within a global framework by documenting how foreign languages and cultures played a key role in her work, before gaining attention internationally today, notably in translation. A published translator who used translation as a creative method to fashion her fiction, Carter has now been translated into multiple languages. The essays and interviews contained in this volume show that, as it moves between tongues and cultural contexts, Carter's work continues to initiate dialogues and inspire both critical and creative responses. Organised in four parts, it documents her activity as a translator and the generative role it played in her oeuvre and informed her translational poetics, as well as the circulation of her work in translation on several continents, complete with testimonies of translators and adaptors who stress its inspiring force.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: ‘You know I have [a]‌ knack with foreign languages, pick’ em up like fleas’
• Part I Angela Carter’s Antiquarianisms
• 1 Middle English, Merlin, and the Medieval Worlds of Angela Carter
• 2 Translating Allegorical ‘Transfixion’: From Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene to Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber
• 3 Translational Play with the Shakespearean Utterance in Angela Carter’s ‘Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
• 4 Translation as Creative Crossing: Angela Carter Conversing with the Victorian Past
• Part II Angela Carter’s Translational Poetics
• 5 From the Parisian to the Cockney Venus: Angela Carter’s Acrobatic Homage to Baudelaire’s Poems in Prose
• 6 ‘Perhaps so, perhaps not’: Angela Carter’s Italian Connections
• 7 Hana, or Monster within a Flower: Carter’s Iconographic Translation of Japanese Palimpsests
• 8 The Strange Visual Machines of Angela Carter: Writing Magical Images from Fireworks to American Ghosts and Old World Wonders1
• Part III Translating Angela Carter’s Fiction in Context
• 9 A ‘Garden of (Some) Forking Paths’1: Angela Carter’s Translations and Resonances in the Hispanic Context
• 10 Translating Body-Language and Cultural Transfer: Angela Carter’s Birdwoman Cackles in Hungarian
• 11 Interview with Yun ‘Jo’ Yen: Angela Carter in Chinese Translation
• Part IV The Reception of Angela Carter’s Works in Translation and Transmediation
• 12 ‘A gold mine of imagination’ or ‘bloated nonsense’?: Translations and Reception of Angela Carter’s Work in the Netherlands and Germany
• 13 Who’s Afraid of Angela Carter?: On the Reception of Her Work in Poland
• 14 The Musical Transpositions of Angela Carter’s Fiction: An Interview with Polly Paulusma
• Index