Jack Mcmartin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4079322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Mcmartin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmartin |
| SIGNATURE | MCMARTIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7541-641X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The sociological biography of translators
Translation studies is undergoing a “biographical turn”, with growing attention to translators’ lives as a way of explaining translation phenomena. Yet the theoretical foundations of translator biography remain underexplored, limiting its development as a research method. This article examines the conceptual dilemma of biographical inquiry into translators, arguing that dominant models of translation practice, such as the Bourdieusian notion of t…
“L’Internationale” on the move
status: Published online
Representing translation in a documentary about one of the world’s most translated songs
This paper analyses ‘translatedness’ – representations of translation and the ways and extent to which the act of translation are made explicit – in the short documentary The Internationale (2000). How is translation represented in a film about one of the world’s most widely translated and disseminated songs? Drawing inspiration from film narratology, it first examines the auditive and visual meaning-making resources at work in the documentary, k…
Soft power, ‘international literature’, and prizing the other
status: Published online
The ‘other’ Transylvanian count
This article discusses the contemporary Hungarian and Anglophone reception of a trilogy of recently ‘rediscovered’ novels chronicling the demise of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Written by the Transylvanian author and statesman Miklós Bánffy (1873–1950), the trilogy was originally published in 1934–1940, was suppressed during the Communist period and was published in English translation only in 1999 after years of work by Bánffy’s daughter, Katali…
The transnational production and reception of “a future classic”
This article proposes a new sociological model for understanding the circulation of a single widely translated book, from local creation to transnational production and reception. Reconstructing the career of War and Turpentine by the Dutch-speaking Belgian author Stefan Hertmans, it examines the book’s circulation as a process mediated through a transnational literary field linking the literary field of the original and the many separate yet co-…
Dutch Literature in Translation
This article analyzes a dataset of over 11,000 book translations from Dutch published in the last two decades to give a global picture of recent outgoing translation flows. It examines four main categories – genre, author national grouping (Dutch/Flemish), target language, and translation grant status – revealing children’s literature and fiction to be important export genres; a steady increase in the number of translations of works by Dutch auth…
Dutch Literature in Translation
This article analyzes a dataset of over 11,000 book translations from Dutch published in the last two decades to give a global picture of recent outgoing translation flows. It examines four main categories – genre, author national grouping (Dutch/Flemish), target language, and translation grant status – revealing children’s literature and fiction to be important export genres; a steady increase in the number of translations of works by Dutch auth…
The transnational production and reception of “a future classic”
This article proposes a new sociological model for understanding the circulation of a single widely translated book, from local creation to transnational production and reception. Reconstructing the career of War and Turpentine by the Dutch-speaking Belgian author Stefan Hertmans, it examines the book’s circulation as a process mediated through a transnational literary field linking the literary field of the original and the many separate yet co-…
Dutch Literature in Translation
This article analyzes a dataset of over 11,000 book translations from Dutch published in the last two decades to give a global picture of recent outgoing translation flows. It examines four main categories – genre, author national grouping (Dutch/Flemish), target language, and translation grant status – revealing children’s literature and fiction to be important export genres; a steady increase in the number of translations of works by Dutch auth…
The ‘other’ Transylvanian count
This article discusses the contemporary Hungarian and Anglophone reception of a trilogy of recently ‘rediscovered’ novels chronicling the demise of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Written by the Transylvanian author and statesman Miklós Bánffy (1873–1950), the trilogy was originally published in 1934–1940, was suppressed during the Communist period and was published in English translation only in 1999 after years of work by Bánffy’s daughter, Katali…
Soft power, ‘international literature’, and prizing the other
status: Published online
“L’Internationale” on the move
status: Published online
Representing translation in a documentary about one of the world’s most translated songs
This paper analyses ‘translatedness’ – representations of translation and the ways and extent to which the act of translation are made explicit – in the short documentary The Internationale (2000). How is translation represented in a film about one of the world’s most widely translated and disseminated songs? Drawing inspiration from film narratology, it first examines the auditive and visual meaning-making resources at work in the documentary, k…
The sociological biography of translators
Translation studies is undergoing a “biographical turn”, with growing attention to translators’ lives as a way of explaining translation phenomena. Yet the theoretical foundations of translator biography remain underexplored, limiting its development as a research method. This article examines the conceptual dilemma of biographical inquiry into translators, arguing that dominant models of translation practice, such as the Bourdieusian notion of t…
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