The Translator in the Text: On Reading Russian Literature in English

by Rachel May

Overview

What does it mean to read one nation's literature in another language? The considerable popularity of Russian literature in the English-speaking world rests almost entirely upon translations. In The Translator and the Text, Rachel May analyzes Russian literature in English translation, seeing it less as a substitute for the original works than as a subset of English literature, with its own cultural, stylistic, and narrative traditions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810111578
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	11/23/1994
Series:	Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Edition description:	1
Pages:	209
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Rachel May is Assistant Professor of Russian at Macalester College and the translator, with Larry Joseph, of Abram Tertz's Little Jinx, also published by Northwestern.