AUC Philologica (Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica) is an academic journal published by Charles University. It publishes scholarly articles in a large number of disciplines (English, German, Greek and Latin, Oriental, Romance and Slavonic studies, as well as in phonetics and translation studies), both on linguistic and on literary and cultural topics. Apart from articles it publishes reviews of new academic books or special issues of academic journals.
The journal is indexed in CEEOL, DOAJ, EBSCO, and ERIH PLUS.
AUC PHILOLOGICA, Vol 2011 No 2 (2011), 125–134
Western Translation with an Eastern Twist. Aspects of Eastern Strategy and Creativity in the Field of Literary Translation and Publishing in Pre- and Post-War France and Britain
Ronald Jenn
published online: 05. 01. 2015
abstract
This paper aims to assess the influence of eastern world views, political as well as aesthetic, upon the translation and publishing of a number of major authors such as Jack London, Mark Twain, and Raymond Queneau from the 1920s to the 1950s. Indeed, a number of western publishing institutions and agents with an eastern influence or background strived at creating alternative cognitive maps over a period marked by a divide between the capitalist West and the communist East. Though traditionally perceived as static, this period, as this piece of research intends to demonstrate, was alive with transnational influences and the divide articulated with local concerns, goals, traditions, and histories.
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ISSN: 0567-8269
E-ISSN: 2464-6830
