Prismatic Translation

Matthew Reynolds

Prismatic Translation

Edited by Matthew Reynolds

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7 January 2020 • 396pp

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Translation can be seen as producing a text in one language that will count as equivalent to a text in another. It can also be seen as a release of multiple signifying possibilities, an opening of the source text to Language in all its plurality. The first view is underpinned by the regime of European standard languages which can be lined up in bilingual dictionaries, by the technology of the printed book, and by the need for regulated communication in political, academic and legal contexts. The second view is most at home in multilingual cultures, in circumstances where language is not standardised (e.g., minority and dialectal communities, and oral cultures), in the fluidity of electronic text, and in literature. The first view sees translation as a channel; the second as a prism.

This volume explores prismatic modes of translation in ancient Egypt, contemporary Taiwan, twentieth-century Hungary, early modern India, and elsewhere. It gives attention to experimental literary writing, to the politics of language, to the practices of scholarship, and to the multiplying possibilities created by digital media. It charts the recent growth of prismatic modes in anglophone literary translation and translational literature; and it offers a new theorisation of the phenomenon and its agonistic relation to the ‘channel’ view. Prismatic Translation is an essential intervention in a rapidly changing field.

Shortlisted for the 2021 ESCL Excellence Award for Collaborative Research.

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Reviews:

‘Prismatic Translation is a book of delights … there is unquestionably something here for everyone with an interest in translation, whether as an art form, an object of study, a field for radical experiments, or indeed all of the above.’ — Sarah Ekdawi, Σύγκριση 29, 2020, 162-168 (full text online)
‘'Prismatic' is a potent and productive metaphor for what translation can do and be, and the chapters collected in Prismatic Translation prove it. .. Just as the best translations resolve the tensions between philology and poetry, or acceptability and adequacy, these papers mediate between the demands of narrow and broad definitions of literary translation, illuminating intricacies of both text and context.’ — Lucas Klein, Translation Studies 12 Oct 2020 (full text online)
‘Imaginings of language, the mission of Creative Multilingualism, are the gifts of Prismatic Translation. They transform translation studies and make them immediately relevant to comparative literature by carving out a space for identifying untidy details, insertions, inventions, and anxieties which are initially felt in “a bristling of sense” but are now instrumental in the articulation of the various reading processes involving intercultural dialogues and exchanges.’ — Wen-chin Ouyang, Recherche littéraire/Literary Research 37, 2021, 351-55
‘Resulting from a long-term collaboration among several scholars and from investigations at various conferences, mostly from 2015 onwards, this ample volume edited by Matthew Reynolds bears the mark of in-depth discussions about a topic that has eventually been present in the collective literary awareness, but which has also been exposed to many contradictory – or complementary – interpretations and approaches.’ — Metka Zupančič, CompLit 3, 2022, 249-51 (full text online)
‘Prismatic Translation thus marks a new approach to translation that focuses on the creativity of translation. Differences between different translations reveal the creative dimension of human linguistic interaction. As a prism exudes white light into different colors of the rainbow, so translation activates the potential of the original to become the basis of different translations.’ — Leona Nikolaš, Primerjalna književnost 45.1, 2022, 211-16 (full text online)

Contents:

ix-ix	Acknowledgements M. R. doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.3	Cite
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x-xiv	Notes On the Contributors Matthew Reynolds doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.4	Cite
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1-18	Introduction Matthew Reynolds doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.5	Cite
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21-48	Chapter 1 Prismatic Agon, Prismatic Harmony: Translation, Literature, Language Matthew Reynolds doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.6	Cite
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51-71	Chapter 2 Poetic Traffic in A Multilingual Literary Culture: Equivalence, Parallel Aesthetics, and Language-Stretching in North India Francesca Orsini doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.7	Cite
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72-95	Chapter 3 ‘Annihilation Is Atop the Lake’: the Visual Untranslatability of An Ancient Egyptian Short Story Hany Rashwan doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.8	Cite
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96-118	Chapter 4 [mirroring] Events at the Sense Horizon: Translation Over Time John Cayley doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.9	Cite
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121-139	Chapter 5 Through A Prism, Translated: Culture and Change in Russia Yvonne Howell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.10	Cite
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140-155	Chapter 6 Literary Metatranslations: When Translation Multiples Tell Their Own Story Kasia Szymanska doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.11	Cite
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156-172	Chapter 7 Extreme Translation Adriana X. Jacobs doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.12	Cite
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173-188	Chapter 8 Translation Poetry: the Poetics of Noise in Hsia Yü’s Pink Noise Cosima Bruno doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.13	Cite
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189-204	Chapter 9 Cultural Translation, Or, the Political Logic of Prismatic Translation Jernej Habjan doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.14	Cite
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207-220	Chapter 10 the Literary Translator As Dispersive Prism: Refracting and Recomposing Cultures Jean Anderson doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.15	Cite
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221-242	Chapter 11 in Words and Colours: Lingo-Visual Translations of the Poetry of Shafii Kadkani Pari Azarm Motamedi doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.16	Cite
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243-261	Chapter 12 T Is For Translation(s): Translating Nonsense Alphabets Into French Audrey Coussy doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.17	Cite
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262-285	Chapter 13 Algorithmic Translation: New Challenges For Translation in the Age of Algorithms Eran Hadas doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.18	Cite
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286-294	Chapter 14 Du Bellay in the Modern University Philip Terry doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.19	Cite
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297-311	Chapter 15 Coleridge Diffracted: On the Opening Lines of Kubla Khan Patrick Hersant doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.20	Cite
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312-330	Chapter 16 the Hungarian Spectrum of Petronius’s Satyricon Péter Hajdu doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.21	Cite
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331-345	Chapter 17 the Schizophrenic Prism: Louis Wolfson’s Translation Practice Alexandra Lukes doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.22	Cite
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346-358	Chapter 18 Less Than Paper-Thin: Pseudotranslations, Absent Fathers and Harry Mathews’s Armenian Papers Dennis Duncan doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.23	Cite
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359-368	Chapter 19 Original-Esque: Diderot and Goethe in Back-Translation Stefan Willer doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.24	Cite
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369-382	Index Matthew Reynolds doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km05j.25	Cite
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