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Author Kunina, I︠U︡lii︠a︡, author.

Title The translator's doubts : Vladimir Nabokov and the ambiguity of translation / Julia Trubikhina
Published Boston, Massachusetts : Academic Studies Press, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (252 pages)
Series Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
Cultural revolutions.
Contents Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Nabokov's Beginnings: "Ania" in Wonderland or "Does Asparagus Grow in a Pile of Manure?" -- Chapter 2. The Novel on Translation and "über-Translation": Nabokov's Pale Fire and Eugene Onegin -- Chapter 3. "Cinemizing" as Translation: Nabokov's Screenplay of Lolita and Stanley Kubrick's and Adrian Lyne's Cinematic Versions -- Conclusion. Vladimir Nabokov within the Russian and Western Traditions of Translation -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary Using Vladimir Nabokov as its "case study," this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. The book attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in Nabokov studies from its earlier emphasis on the "metaliterary" to the more recent "metaphysical" approach. Addressing specific texts (both literary and cinematic), the book investigates Nabokov's deeply ambivalent relationship to translation as a hermeneutic oscillation on his part between the relative stability of meaning, which expresses itself philosophically as a faith in the beyond, and deep metaphysical uncertainty. While Nabokov's practice of translation changes profoundly over the course of his career, his adherence to the Romantic notion of a "true" but ultimately elusive metaphysical language remained paradoxically constant
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Funded by National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program
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Subject Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Translations
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovič 1899-1977
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Übersetzung
Theorie
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Translations
Form Electronic book
Author National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program, funder.
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