Literary Translation and the Making of Originals
Literary Translation and the Making of Originals
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文学翻译与原作制作
DOI：
10.1080/07374836.2019.1635361
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发表时间：
2019
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0.5
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S. Kingery
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作者：
S. Kingery
作为一位多产的文学翻译家和普林斯顿大学比较文学教授，凯伦·艾默里奇在文学翻译和文本研究的实践和理论上都处于完美的位置。她的《文学翻译与原创》是一篇发人深省的宣言，通过强调翻译体现原创性的方式，以及“原创”是衍生作品的方式，成功地揭示了一些传统的原创和翻译之间的区别的弱点，这些衍生作品在一定程度上是由译者创造的，译者必须将“特定文本作为要翻译的‘优先’文本”（13）。艾默里奇第一次认识到译者在创作原作中的作用是在她为自己的第一个重大项目——《瓦西里斯》的翻译——签订合同时
As a prolific literary translator and professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, Karen Emmerich is perfectly situated to address literary translation and textual studies in practice and in theory. Her Literary Translation and the Making of Originals is a thought-provoking manifesto that successfully reveals the weaknesses in some of the traditional distinctions that are made between originals and translations by emphasizing the ways in which translations manifest originality and the ways in which “originals” are derivative works that are, in part, created by the translator who must establish “a particular text as the ‘prior’text to be translated”(13). Emmerich first came to her understanding of the translator’s role in creating the original when she signed a contract for her first major project, the translation of Vassilis