Time-sharing on stage : drama translation in theatre and society /

"Time-Sharing on Stage compares theatre texts to apartments where tenants may make considerable changes to their living quarters. Translated theatre texts are therefore studied in relation to the 'tenants' - theatrical producers - who have responded to various codes in the surrounding...

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Main Author: Aaltonen, Sirkku
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Clevedon, England ; Buffalo, N.Y. : Multilingual Matters, ©2000
Series:Topics in translation ; 17
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Summary:"Time-Sharing on Stage compares theatre texts to apartments where tenants may make considerable changes to their living quarters. Translated theatre texts are therefore studied in relation to the 'tenants' - theatrical producers - who have responded to various codes in the surrounding societies in their effort to integrate these texts into a sociocultural discourse of their time. Different modes of integration, expressions of reverence or subversion, have generated endless chains of texts, born of other texts, and redecorated by their various tenants. The line between writing and translating has at times become so blurred that instead of originals and translations we have a multitude of texts which can be used to serve many. Time-Sharing on Stage argues that translation comprises inherently egotistically motivated strategies which can only hope to produce cultural hybrids."--Jacket
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 121 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-120) and index
ISBN:058534597X
9780585345970