Literature, Translation, and the Politics of Meaning: Polish, American, and German Literary Traditions (Mitteleuropäische Studien zur Komparatistik / … European Studies in Comparative Literature)

Literature, Translation, and the Politics of Meaning: Polish, American, and German Literary Traditions (Mitteleuropäische Studien zur Komparatistik / … European Studies in Comparative Literature)
by: Prof. Dr. Paweł Marcinkiewicz (Author)
Publisher:V&R unipress GmbH
Publication Date: 15 April 2024
Language:English
Print Length:232 pages
ISBN-10:3847116444
ISBN-13:9783847116448
Book Description
This book deals mostly with American avant-garde literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the present-day practice and politics of its translation into Polish, trying to answer the following questions: What is the meaning and the limits of avant-gardism? What is the rationale of literary translations and what is their life-cycle in receiving literary polysystems? Furthermore: What is the importance of translation in shaping the politics of meaning – our collective textual practices determining our epistemological perspectives in literature and beyond? And finally: What are the consequences of implementing foreign modes of thinking and making politics in the receiving culture, both in the social sphere and in writing?
About the Author
This book deals mostly with American avant-garde literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the present-day practice and politics of its translation into Polish, trying to answer the following questions: What is the meaning and the limits of avant-gardism? What is the rationale of literary translations and what is their life-cycle in receiving literary polysystems? Furthermore: What is the importance of translation in shaping the politics of meaning – our collective textual practices determining our epistemological perspectives in literature and beyond? And finally: What are the consequences of implementing foreign modes of thinking and making politics in the receiving culture, both in the social sphere and in writing?