Translation and the Arts in Modern France ISBN-13: 9780253025630

ISBN-13: 9780253025630

Binding: Hardcover

Author: Stephens, Sonya

Details: Product Description

Translation and the Arts in Modern France sits at the intersection of transposition, translation, and ekphrasis, finding resonances in these areas across periods, places, and forms. Within these contributions, questions of colonization, subjugation, migration, and exile connect Benin to Brittany, and political philosophy to the sentimental novel and to film. Focusing on cultural production from 1830 to the present and privileging French culture, the contributors explore interactions with other cultures, countries, and continents, often explicitly equating intercultural permeability with representational exchange. In doing so, the book exposes the extent to which moving between media and codes―the very process of translation and transposition―is a defining aspect of creativity across time, space, and disciplines.

Review

“With the overall high quality of its essays, and its innovative focus on intermediality as a lens through which to theorize translation, this volume makes a thoughtful contribution to ongoing discussions in translation studies and nineteenth-century literary history.”―French Studies

About the Author

Sonya Stephens is Professor of French and Acting President at Mount Holyoke College having taught previously at Indiana University, Bloomington and Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published widely on nineteenth-century French poetry and its relation to visual culture, and is currently working on questions of process and on iconicity in modern France, as well as on a study of illustrated editions of Les Fleurs du Mal. She is author of Baudelaires Prose Poetry: The Practice and Politics of Irony; editor of A History of Womens Writing in France, Ebauches/Esquisses: Projects and Pre-Texts in Nineteenth-Century France; and coeditor of Birth and Death in Nineteenth-Century French Culture.

Release Date: 10-07-2017

Package Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English

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Number Of Pages: 284