Susan Bassnett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3662154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Bassnett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bassnett |
| SIGNATURE | BASSNETT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9468-9800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
President’s Letter
President's Letter
In conversation: Susan Bassnett and Alicia Partnoy talk about translation, feminisms and survival
This guest piece features a conversation between Susan Bassnett, arguably one of the most influential scholars in translation studies in Western academia, whose research has been undoubtedly pivota
President’s Letter
President’s Letter
President’s Letter
Trabalho De Mulheres
Tradução do texto Women s Work, from Reflections on Translation para o fascículo 31 da Tradução em Revista
President's Letter
President's Letter
Escrevendo em terra de homem nenhum: Questões De Gênero E Tradução
Este artigo centra-se em questões de gênero e tradução levantas por teóricas/osfeministas e dos Estudos da Tradução, na década de 1970. Susan Bassnett discute osargumentos apresentados pela crítica feminista - no que tange o modo como asociedade marginaliza as mulheres e seus processos criativos - e por teóricas/os detradução - em relação ao processo manipulativo envolvido na suposta "inocente"transferência de textos de uma cultura para outra - e…
President's Letter
President's Letter
President's Letter
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Przekład i postkolonializm
This paper will seek to trace two lines of post-colonial theorizing about translation, one of which can loosely be termed post-colonial literary theory and the other as translation studies. Both of these fields rose to prominence and developed in the latter decades of the twentieth century. It will be argued that research is currently moving towards an integration of the two approaches that offers exciting new possibilities for the future
No Future without Humanities: Literary Perspectives
What might Humanities have to offer to the current big societal and technological challenges? The nine short position papers presented here were collected by Svend Erik Larsen from colleagues and members of the Academia Europaea Section for Literary and Theatrical Studies who have been actively involved in the changes within their discipline in the areas they introduce. They show emerging interdisciplinary fields, provide new insights, indicate s…
To a Mountain in Tibet
There is an elegiac quality to this book. It opens with the author and a small party trekking up a mountain path in Nepal, at midday, en route to Tibet. His feeling is, he tells us, one of lightnes
Understanding the Short Story: A Personal Odyssey
This paper begins with a confession: I am not by any means an expert on short fiction. I can claim some expertise in poetry and theatre, a reasonableacquaintancewithlongerprosefiction,butalmostnoexpertise at all in short fiction. Of course as an academic working in literary studies, I have taught short fiction: in my first British lectureship on the first-year reading list were the stories of Henry James and D. H. Lawrence’s England, my England, …
Postcolonial Translation
This outstanding collection brings together eminent contributors (from Britain, the US, Brazil, India and Canada) to examine crucial interconnections between postcolonial theory and translation studies. Examining the relationships between language and power across cultural boundaries, this collection reveals the vital role of translation in redefining the meanings of culture and ethnic identity. The essay topics include:* links between centre and…
Postcolonial Translation: Theory and Practice
Introduction to ‘Belonging’ by Geoffrey Moorhouse
Translating Selves. Experiences and Identity between Languages and Literatures; Mapping World Literature. International Canonization and Translation Literatures
PASCHALIS NIKOLAOU AND MARIA-VENETIA KYRITSI (Eds.) London and New York, Continuum, 2008 202 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8264-9926-4, £60.00 MADS ROSENDAHL THOMSEN London and New York, Continuum, 2008 170 pp
Madwomen: The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral - by Couch, R
Travelling through Translation
Influence and Intertextuality: A Reappraisal
This essay considers shifts of approach in comparative literature, from early endeavours to trace direct influences of one author upon another to a more holistic model that sees the study of literature as the study of intertextual connections. Starting with Matthew Arnold's statement about the impossibility of comprehending any single literature adequately without taking into account other literatures, the essay considers three cases: the relatio…
Reflections on Comparative Literature in the Twenty-First Century
3 I have been struggling with Comparative Literature all my academic life. I use the word ‘struggle’ advisedly; engaging with the idea of comparative literature has not been easy nor, as we move forward in this new century, is it at all clear where the discipline will move to next. True, on the one hand there is a flourishing international comparative literature association, with daughter branches in dozens of different countries, there are journ…
Bringing the News Back Home: Strategies of Acculturation and Foreignisation
This paper considers the long-standing debate in the field of translation concerning whether texts should be fully acculturated into the target system or should retain traces of their foreign origin. The author suggests that these debates become redundant, if not counter-productive in the field of news translation, where the demands of the target audience, the time constraints and the hybrid nature of the linguistic processes involved in creating…
Crossing cultural boundaries
Reflections on Comparative Literature in the Twenty-First Century
3 I have been struggling with Comparative Literature all my academic life. I use the word ‘struggle’ advisedly; engaging with the idea of comparative literature has not been easy nor, as we move forward in this new century, is it at all clear where the discipline will move to next. True, on the one hand there is a flourishing international comparative literature association, with daughter branches in dozens of different countries, there are journ…
Faith, doubt, aid and prayer: The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 revisited
This essay considers reactions to the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, in particular the ways in which the founders of English Methodism, John and Charles Wesley used the event in their sermons and hymns respectively. The Wesleys focused on the vengeful power of the divine in order to urge people to look into their hearts and change their ways to avoid damnation. In contrast, the reaction to the global natural disasters of 2005 has been quite different…
Influence and Intertextuality: A Reappraisal
This essay considers shifts of approach in comparative literature, from early endeavours to trace direct influences of one author upon another to a more holistic model that sees the study of literature as the study of intertextual connections. Starting with Matthew Arnold's statement about the impossibility of comprehending any single literature adequately without taking into account other literatures, the essay considers three cases: the relatio…
Translation, Gender and Otherness
This article discusses the notion of 'Otherness' in contemporary Translation Studies. Here the term refers to a translator's confrontation with unfamiliar concepts, forms, and language as well as to the dilemma of rendering them in a different cultural context. Based on brief historical summaries of early, significant debates, such as the 19th century British debate on translating Homer, contemporary theories raising questions about ethics, gende…
Translating Terror
Starting with a reading of a translated text from an Islamist website, this essay looks at the underlying cultural and literary traditions that have influenced the translator's strategy. The author suggests that the horizon of expectation of the potential readership has been shaped by centuries of textual anxiety about Central Asia, a region perceived as a cradle of savagery and anti-modernity since the Middle Ages. From the creator of the C13th …
Textual liberation. European feminist writing in the twentieth century
Escrevendo em terra de homem nenhum: Questões De Gênero E Tradução
Este artigo centra-se em questões de gênero e tradução levantas por teóricas/osfeministas e dos Estudos da Tradução, na década de 1970. Susan Bassnett discute osargumentos apresentados pela crítica feminista - no que tange o modo como asociedade marginaliza as mulheres e seus processos criativos - e por teóricas/os detradução - em relação ao processo manipulativo envolvido na suposta "inocente"transferência de textos de uma cultura para outra - e…
Travelling through Translation
Rich and Poor in Renaissance Venice: The Social Institutions of a Catholic State, to 1620
Feminist Experiences: The Women's Movement in Four Cultures
The Magdalena Experiment. New Directions in Women's Theatre
Literary Reviews
Classic realism. The Time of the Hero. Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated from the Spanish by Lysander Kemp. London: Picador. 1986. 409pp. £4.50pb The Green House. Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. London: Picador. 1986. 405pp. £3.95pb Colluding with darkness. Of Love and Shadows. Isabel Allende. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. London: Cape. 1987. 274pp. £10.95hb The Lizard's Tail. Luisa Valenzu…
Literary reviews
Stray foreigners Baumgartner's Bombay. Anita Desai, London: Heinemann. 1988. 230pp. £10.95hb Tearing the Punjab Days of the Turban. Partap Sharma, London: Futura. 1988. 385pp. £4.95pb Ice‐Candy Man. Bapsi Sidhwa, London: Heinemann. 1988. 277pp. £11.95hb Privileged insulation Plans for Departure. Nayantara Sahgal, London: Penguin. 1987. 216pp. £3.95pb Mistaken Identity. Nayantara Sahgal, London: Heinemann. 1988. 194pp. £10.95hb Celebration and lam…
Bernhardt, Terry, Duse: The Actress in Her Time
Dante's Griffin and the History of the World: A Study of the Earthly Paradise (‘Purgatorio’, cantos xxix–xxxiii)
Dante's Griffin and the History of the World: A Study of the Earthly Paradise (‘Purgatorio’, cantos xxix–xxxiii)
Crossing cultural boundaries
Textual liberation. European feminist writing in the twentieth century
Language through Literature
Luigi Pirandello in the Theatre: A Documentary Record
THEORETICALBEGINNINGSAND EARLY PRACTICE (1899-1922) Spoken Action Illustrators, Actors and Translators Dialect Theatre Virgilio Talli and Right You Are Theatre and Literature INTERNATIONAL DRAMATIST: SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR AND HENRY IV (1921-1925) Six Characters in Search of an Author - Henry IV THE TEATRO d'ARTE (1924-1928) Letter from Stefano Pirandello to Luigi Pirandeilo Documents Proposing the Teatro d'Arte Letter from Pirande…
Constructing Cultures: Essay on Literary Translation
This book brings together for the first time the work of the two translator/scholars who are regarded as founders of this major field of study. It continues to develop some of the principal research lines that both have been pursuing in recent years, most specifically the cultural turn in Translation Studies.
Travel Writing Within British Studies
Is There Hope for the Humanities in the 21st Century
The article considers the current position of research in the Humanities in the light of social changes and in particular changes in verbal and visual literacy. The author suggests that the two weakest areas in the Humanities, Literary Studies and Foreign Language Studies, need to rethink themselves increasingly in terms of rigour following the success stories in other areas of the Humanities such as Classics, History, and Film and Media Studies.…
Translation Studies
In the late 1970s a new academic discipline was born: Translation Studies. We could not read literature in translation, it was argued, without asking ourselves if linguistic and cultural phenomena really were 'translatable' and exploring in some depth the concept of 'equivalence'.When Susan Bassnett's Translation Studies appeared in the New Accents series, it quickly became the essential introduction to this new subject. Susan Bassnett tackles th…
Judging translation
Consider Translation: A Roundtable Discussion 1
Bringing the News Back Home: Strategies of Acculturation and Foreignisation
This paper considers the long-standing debate in the field of translation concerning whether texts should be fully acculturated into the target system or should retain traces of their foreign origin. The author suggests that these debates become redundant, if not counter-productive in the field of news translation, where the demands of the target audience, the time constraints and the hybrid nature of the linguistic processes involved in creating…
Translation, Gender and Otherness
This article discusses the notion of 'Otherness' in contemporary Translation Studies. Here the term refers to a translator's confrontation with unfamiliar concepts, forms, and language as well as to the dilemma of rendering them in a different cultural context. Based on brief historical summaries of early, significant debates, such as the 19th century British debate on translating Homer, contemporary theories raising questions about ethics, gende…
Translating Terror
Starting with a reading of a translated text from an Islamist website, this essay looks at the underlying cultural and literary traditions that have influenced the translator's strategy. The author suggests that the horizon of expectation of the potential readership has been shaped by centuries of textual anxiety about Central Asia, a region perceived as a cradle of savagery and anti-modernity since the Middle Ages. From the creator of the C13th …
Reflections on Comparative Literature in the Twenty-First Century
3 I have been struggling with Comparative Literature all my academic life. I use the word ‘struggle’ advisedly; engaging with the idea of comparative literature has not been easy nor, as we move forward in this new century, is it at all clear where the discipline will move to next. True, on the one hand there is a flourishing international comparative literature association, with daughter branches in dozens of different countries, there are journ…
Faith, doubt, aid and prayer: The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 revisited
This essay considers reactions to the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, in particular the ways in which the founders of English Methodism, John and Charles Wesley used the event in their sermons and hymns respectively. The Wesleys focused on the vengeful power of the divine in order to urge people to look into their hearts and change their ways to avoid damnation. In contrast, the reaction to the global natural disasters of 2005 has been quite different…
Influence and Intertextuality: A Reappraisal
This essay considers shifts of approach in comparative literature, from early endeavours to trace direct influences of one author upon another to a more holistic model that sees the study of literature as the study of intertextual connections. Starting with Matthew Arnold's statement about the impossibility of comprehending any single literature adequately without taking into account other literatures, the essay considers three cases: the relatio…
Travelling through Translation
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