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  • Queer Theory and Translation Studies

    Language, Politics, Desire

    by Brian James Baer ...
    Series series New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This groundbreaking book explores the relevance of queer theory to Translation Studies and of translation to Global Sexuality Studies. Beginning with a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of queer theory, this book places queer theory and Translation Studies in a productive and mutually interrogating relationship.After framing the discussion of actual and potential interfaces ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature

    by Professor Brian James Baer ...
    Series series Literatures, Cultures, Translation
    Brian James Baer explores the central role played by translation in the construction of modern Russian literature. Peter I's policy of forced Westernization resulted in translation becoming a widely discussed and highly visible practice in Russia, a multi-lingual empire with a polyglot elite. Yet Russia's accumulation of cultural capital through translation occurred at a time when the Romantic ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Academic Translation

    by Brian James Baer ...
    Series series Translation Practices Explained
    Scholarly writings in translation have contributed enormously to intellectual life throughout the world, but there has been little written on the practice of academic translation. Leading translation scholar, translator, and translator educator Brian James Baer discusses the specific challenges involved with academic translation and sets out ways of addressing them as a necessary first step in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Translation and Diaspora

    The Role of Translation in Émigré Communities in the USA

    Edited by Nike K. Pokorn, Brian James Baer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    The collective volume, Translation and Diaspora, explores for the first time in a systematic way diasporic communities as a distinct site of translational activity and highlights how fundamental translational activity has been to the development of diasporas in the USA.Contrary to the quite extensive research on translation and migration, Translation and Diaspora with its exploration of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Translation in Russian Contexts

    Culture, Politics, Identity

    Edited by Brian James Baer, Susanna Witt ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This volume represents the first large-scale effort to address topics of translation in Russian contexts across the disciplinary boundaries of Slavic Studies and Translation Studies, thus opening up new perspectives for both fields. Leading scholars from Eastern and Western Europe offer a comprehensive overview of Russian translation history examining a variety of domains, including literature, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship

    Edited by Denise Merkle, Brian James Baer ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship is the first handbook to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic, offering broad geographic and historical coverage, and extending the political contexts to incorporate colonial and postcolonial viewpoints, as well as pluralistic societies. It examines key cultural texts of all kinds as well as audio-visual translation, comics, drama and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Teaching Literature in Translation

    Pedagogical Contexts and Reading Practices

    Edited by Brian James Baer, Michelle Woods ...
    The teaching of texts in translation has become an increasingly common practice, but so too has the teaching of texts from languages and cultures with which the instructor may have little or no familiarity. The authors in this volume present a variety of pedagogical approaches to promote translation literacy and to address the distinct phenomenology of translated texts. The approaches set forward ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sexuality

    Edited by Brian James Baer, Serena Bassi ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sexuality questions what it would mean to think of sexualities transnationally and explores the way cultural ideas about sex and sexuality are translated across languages. It considers how scholars chart the multilingual rise of the modern sexual sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, how translators, writers, and readers respond to sexual ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Queer(ing) Russian Art

    Realism, Revolution, Performance

    Edited by Brian James Baer, Yevgeniy Fiks ...
    Series series Myths and Taboos in Slavic Cultures
    While the topic of queer sexuality in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union has been investigated for decades by scholars working in the fields of sociology, history, literary studies, and musicology, it has yet to be studied in any comprehensive or systematic way by those working in the visual arts. Queer(ing) Russian Art: Realism, Revolution, Performanceis meant to address this lacuna by ... Read more

    $125.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Researching Translation and Interpreting

    Edited by Claudia V. Angelelli, Brian James Baer ...
    This volume offers a comprehensive view of current research directions in Translation and Interpreting Studies, outlining the theoretical concepts underpinning that research and presenting detailed discussions of the various methods used.Organized around three factors that are responsible for shaping the study of translation and interpreting today—post-positivist theoretical approaches, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Fedorov's Introduction to Translation Theory

    Edited by Brian James Baer ...
    Series series Translation Studies in Translation
    This is the first English translation of Andrei V. Fedorov’s classic 1953 text Vvedenie v teoriiu perevoda / Introduction to Translation Theory. Fedorov was the first to argue that translation theorizing should be based on linguistics, due to the fact that language is the common denominator of all translation. In addition, this text offers a concise but thorough comparative overview of thinking on ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Russian Writers on Translation

    An Anthology

    Edited by Brian James Baer, Natalia Olshanskaya ...
    Since the early eighteenth century, following Peter the Great’s policy of forced westernization, translation in Russia has been a very visible and much-discussed practice. Generally perceived as an important service to the state and the nation, translation was also viewed as a high art, leading many Russian poets and writers to engage in literary translation in a serious and sustained manner. As a ... Read more

    $66.99 USD