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Author Spisiakova, Eva, author

Title Queering translation history Shakespeare's sonnets in Czech and Slovak transformations / Eva Spisiakova
Published London : Routledge, 2021

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Description 1 online resource illustrations (black and white)
Series Routledge research on translation and interpreting history
Routledge advances in translation and interpreting studies
Contents <P><STRONG>Introduction</STRONG></P><P>Mapping the History of -- and in -- Queer Translation Studies</P><P>The Method: Translating Sonnets</P><P>Overview </P><P>Notes on Terminology</P><P>Notes on Language </P><P> </P><P></P><B><P>Chapter 1: Queering Czechoslovakia's History </P></B><P>First Czechoslovak Republic and the Second World War </P><P>Socialist Czechoslovakia</P><P>The Velvet Revolution </P><P>Divided Paths after 1993</P><P> </P><P></P><B><P>Chapter 2: A Century of Sonnets </P></B><P>Shakespeare's Sonnets </P><P>The Sonnets in Czechoslovakia </P><P>The First Full Translation </P><P>The Six Socialist Sonnets </P><P>Book Production in Socialist Czechoslovakia </P><P>Socialist Censorship </P><P>Velvet Revolution, Divided Nations, and Eight More Sonnets</P><P> </P><P></P><B><P>Chapter 3: The Master Mistress of my Passion </P></B><P>Gendering Languages </P><P>Gendering Sonnets </P><P>Gendering Translations </P><P>Various Recipients </P><P>Female-addressed Sonnets </P><P>Male-addressed and Neutral Sonnets </P><P> </P><P></P><B><P>Chapter 4: I Love Thee in Such Sort </P></B><P>The Lover </P><P>The Friend </P><P>From Lovers to Friends </P><P>Gods and Children </P><P> </P><P></P><B><P>Conclusion </P><P> </P><P> </P></B>
Summary "This innovative work challenges normative binaries in contemporary translation studies and applies frameworks from queer historiography to the discipline to explore shifting perceptions of same-sex love and desire in translations and retranslations of William Shakespeare's Sonnets"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Translations into Czech -- History and criticism
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Translations into Slovak -- History and criticism
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Sonnets (Shakespeare, William) fast
Subject English poetry -- Translations into Czech -- History and criticism
English poetry -- Translations into Slovak -- History and criticism
Queer theory.
Translating and interpreting -- Czech Republic
Translating and interpreting -- Slovakia
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
English poetry
Queer theory
Translating and interpreting
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1000401561
9781000401608
100040160X
0429322755
9780429322754
9781000401561