Translation, Adaptation and Transformation

Laurence Raw

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781472531292
• eBook ISBN: 9781441143488
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Langues et linguistique
• Subtopic: Traduction et interprétation

In recent years adaptation studies has established itself as a discipline in its own right, separate from translation studies. The bulk of its activity to date has been restricted to literature and film departments, focussing on questions of textual transfer and adaptation of text to film. It is however, much more interdisciplinary, and is not simply a case of transferring content from one medium to another. This collection furthers the research into exactly what the act of adaptation involves and whether it differs from other acts of textual rewriting. In addition, the 'cultural turn' in translation studies has prompted many scholars to consider adaptation as a form of inter-semiotic translation. But what does this mean, and how can we best theorize it? What are the semiotic systems that underlie translation and adaptation? Containing theoretical chapters and personal accounts of actual adaptions and translations, this is an original contribution to translation and adaptation studies which will appeal to researchers and graduate students.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Series Editor’s Preface
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Identifying Common Ground
• Chapter 1: Adaptation and Appropriation: Is there a Limit?
• Chapter 2: Translation and Adaptation – Two Sides of an Ideological Coin
• Chapter 3: The Authenticity in ‘Adaptation’: A Theoretical Perspective from Translation Studies
• Chapter 4: Translation and Rewriting: Don’t Translators ‘Adapt’ When They ‘Translate’?
• Chapter 5: Adapting, Translating and Transforming: Cultural Mediation in Ping Chong’s Deshima and Pojagi
• Chapter 6: The Transadaptation of Shakespeare’s Christian Dimension in China’s Theatre – To Translate, or Not to Translate?
• Chapter 7: ‘Tradaptation’ Dans le Sens Québécois: A Word for the Future
• Chapter 8: Waltz with Bashir as a Case of Multidimensional Translation
• Chapter 9: The Paradoxes of Textual Fidelity: Translation and Intertitles in Victor Sjöström’s Silent Film Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Terje Vigen
• Chapter 10: Les Liaisons Dangeureuses à l’Anglais: Examining Traces of ‘European- ness’ in Cruel Intentions, Dangerous Liaisons and Valmont
• Chapter 11: Turnips or Sweet Potatoes . . . ?
• Chapter 12: The Mind’s Ear: Imagination, Emotions and Ideas in the Intersemiotic Transposition of Housman’s Poetry to Song
• Chapter 13: Cultural Adaptation and Translation: Some Thoughts about Chinese Students Studying in a British University
• Index