Translation as Experimentalism

Exploring Play in Poetics

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19900665
AutoresTong King Lee (0000-0002-8885-6887, University of Hong Kong, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Fecha de publicación2022-07-28
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaTranslation As Experimentalism (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108917292
OpenAlexW4285999441
Open LibraryOL38008849M
ISBN9781108917292
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas41

This Element argues for a perspective on literary translation based around the idea of ludification, using concrete poetry as a test case. Unlike rational-scientific models of translating, ludic translation downplays the linear transmission of meaning from one language into another. It foregrounds instead the open-ended, ergodic nature of translation, where the translator engages with and responds to an original work in an experimental and experiential manner. Focusing on memes rather than signs, ludic translation challenges us to adopt an oblique lens on literary texts and deploy verbal as well as nonverbal resources to add value to an original work. Such an approach is especially amenable to negotiating apparently untranslatable writing like concrete poems across languages, modes, and media. This Element questions assumptions about translatability and opens the discursive space of literary writing to transgressive articulation and multimodal performance. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

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