Translation and Big Details

Part-Whole Thinking as Practice and Theory
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-01769-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies

In the age of big data, evidence keeps suggesting that small, elusive and infrequent details make all the difference in our appreciation of humanistic texts—film, fiction, and philosophy. This book argues, from a cross-disciplinary perspective, that expertise in humanistic translation is precisely the capacity to capture those details that are bigger than they seem. In humanistic translation, the expert handling of big details usually serves audiences and the original, but mala fide translation also works the details for subtle manipulation and audience deception. A focus on textual detail is therefore characteristic of humanistic translators but also compatible with central claims of the cultural turn in translation studies. This book, written by a scholar and teacher of literary, essayistic, and audiovisual translation, endeavors to articulate a seemingly dual interest—on textual detail and cultural analysis—as a single one. It theorizes connections between micro and macro analysis, between translation as detail and translation as culture, thus hoping to build bridges between humanistic translators and translation scholars. It acknowledges tensions between practice and theory and proposes a way forward: practitioners and scholars share ways of thinking—varieties of "part-whole thinking"—that machines can never acquire.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vandaele, Jeroen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations



Prelude and Chapter Presentation

Chapter 1. Paradox: Translation’s Big Details

Chapter 2. Principle: How Details Grow Big

Chapter 3. Part-Whole Thinking (I): First Varieties

Chapter 4. Part-Whole Thinking (II): Phenomenal Varieties

Chapter 5. Part-Whole Thinking (III): Functional Varieties

Chapter 6. Politics: Shiftiness and the Social Whole

Chapter 7. Proof, Problems, and Paths: Concluding Thoughts



Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jeroen Vandaele teaches literary translation and Hispanic literatures at Ghent University, Belgium. From 2008 until 2017 he was professor of Spanish at the University of Oslo (Norway), teaching translation theory and cognitive poetics. He has been a scholar and teacher of translation since the late 1990s.