The Translation of Children's Literature: A Reader: 31 (Topics in Translation) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853599050 ISBN 13: 9781853599057

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2006

Synopsis

Translation of Children's Literature

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Review:

In the last few decades a number of European scholars have paid an increasing amount of attention to children s literature in translation. This book not only provides a synthetic account of what has been achieved in the field, but also makes us fully aware of all the textual, visual and cultural complexities that translating for children entails. Apart from few important Scandinavian studies of children s literature in translation, students of this subject have had problems in finding a book that attempted an up-to-date and comprehensive review of the field. Gillian Lathey s Reader does just this; it investigates a whole range of textual, visual and cultural issues that translating literature for children entails. - Dr Piotr Kuhiwczak, Director, Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies University of Warwick."

This reader will offer valuable information and inspiration to scholars familiar with the field and newcomers alike. - Jochen Weber, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children s Literature, Vol 45, No. 3, 2007"

Covering almost three decades of research in the wide field of writing and translating for children, calling into play the contributions of scholars involved in the study of children's literature, of the translation of books but also audiovisual texts and, last but not least, the reflections of several distinguished translators, the volume provides a thorough overview of the most significant steps taken in the exploration of this often neglected world. On the whole, resulting from an accurate selection of contributions to the hardly-ever-explored field of translating for children, the volume manages to bring to the fore all the relevant issues and theoretical standpoints, providing thorough background while also highlighting the latest research paths. Furthermore, it proves to have an additional and uncommon twofold value: it makes an essential reading for those who approach the translation of children's literature for the first time, but it also stands out as a compendium of the most relevant contributions by scholars inside and outside Europe. - Elena Di Giovanni, University of Macerata, in JOSTrans Issue 8"

Covering almost three decades of research in the wide field of writing and translating for children, calling into play the contributions of scholars involved in the study of children's literature, of the translation of books but also audiovisual texts and, last but not least, the reflections of several distinguished translators, the volume provides a thorough overview of the most significant steps taken in the exploration of this often neglected world. On the whole, resulting from an accurate selection of contributions to the hardly-ever-explored field of translating for children, the volume manages to bring to the fore all the relevant issues and theoretical standpoints, providing thorough background while also highlighting the latest research paths. Furthermore, it proves to have an additional and uncommon twofold value: it makes an essential reading for those who approach the translation of children's literature for the first time, but it also stands out as a compendium of the most relevant contributions by scholars inside and outside Europe.

- Elena Di Giovanni, University of Macerata, in JOSTrans Issue 8"

This reader will offer valuable information and inspiration to scholars familiar with the field and newcomers alike.

- Jochen Weber, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children s Literature, Vol 45, No. 3, 2007"

In the last few decades a number of European scholars have paid an increasing amount of attention to children's literature in translation. This book not only provides a synthetic account of what has been achieved in the field, but also makes us fully aware of all the textual, visual and cultural complexities that translating for children entails. Apart from few important Scandinavian studies of children's literature in translation, students of this subject have had problems in finding a book that attempted an up-to-date and comprehensive review of the field. Gillian Lathey's Reader does just this; it investigates a whole range of textual, visual and cultural issues that translating literature for children entails.

--Dr Piotr Kuhiwczak, Director, Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies University of Warwick.

This reader will offer valuable information and inspiration to scholars familiar with the field and newcomers alike.

--Dr Piotr Kuhiwczak, Director, Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies University of Warwick. "Jochen Weber, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, Vol 45, No. 3, 2007"

Covering almost three decades of research in the wide field of writing and translating for children, calling into play the contributions of scholars involved in the study of children's literature, of the translation of books but also audiovisual texts and, last but not least, the reflections of several distinguished translators, the volume provides a thorough overview of the most significant steps taken in the exploration of this often neglected world. On the whole, resulting from an accurate selection of contributions to the hardly-ever-explored field of translating for children, the volume manages to bring to the fore all the relevant issues and theoretical standpoints, providing thorough background while also highlighting the latest research paths. Furthermore, it proves to have an additional -and uncommon- twofold value: it makes an essential reading for those who approach the translation of children's literature for the first time, but it also stands out as a compendium of the most relevant contributions by scholars inside and outside Europe.

--Dr Piotr Kuhiwczak, Director, Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies University of Warwick. "Elena Di Giovanni, University of Macerata, in JOSTrans Issue 8"

About the Author:

Gillian Lathey is Reader in Children's Literature at Roehampton University and Acting Director of the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature. She currently teaches children's literature at undergraduate and Masters levels; supervises PhD students undertaking children's literature projects; researches the practices and history of translating for children, and administers the biennial Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation. Publications include a comparative study of the representation of war in German and British children's literature, and articles on translation for children and the reading histories of German-Jewish child refugees in the UK in the 1930s and 40s.

About this edition

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1853599050
• ISBN 13: 9781853599057
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Lathey Gillian