Caroline Summers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778058 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Summers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Summers |
| SIGNATURE | SUMMERS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6563-167X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Hostage to Feminism? The Success of Christa Wolf's Kassandra in its 1984 English Translation
Christa Wolf is amongst the best known and the most widely translated writers of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), and a figurehead of modern German literature. 1 Her work is available in over thirty languages, and amongst these it is the economically and politically powerful English language that has provided the most comprehensive translated corpus of her texts.One of the reasons for this enduring appeal and presence in the Anglophon…
The Playwright as Epic Translator? Mother Courage and the Intertextual Construction of an ‘English Brecht’
Since the earliest translations of Brecht's plays into English, translators, directors and actors alike have struggled to reconcile a desire for textual accuracy with a style of performance that is considered ‘Brechtian’. While the dialectic between text and performance is celebrated by Brecht's theories of theatre, his translated texts are often seen to bear sole responsibility for ‘fidelity’ to a concept of the Brechtian, and the continuing eme…
World Authorship as a Struggle for Consecration
Whilst many writers from the former GDR are unfamiliar to readers outside the Germanspeaking world, Christa Wolf is an author with a “world” presence, whose work can be read in more than thirty different languages. This international profile was established by the publication and translation of Wolf’s Nachdenken uber Christa T. (1968; The Quest for Christa T., 1970), a text that impressed one American reviewer with its “earned rather than fashion…
Patterns of Authorship
Christa Wolf is widely regarded as the most internationally successful writer to have emerged from the GDR. However, a definition of authorship as a discursively constructed function presumes shifts in authorial identity as texts cross discursive boundaries, rendering ‘international’ authorship a fragmented, unstable category. Emerging at the intersection of textual, individual and institutionalised realities, the author‐function is vulnerable to…
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Patterns of Authorship
Christa Wolf is widely regarded as the most internationally successful writer to have emerged from the GDR. However, a definition of authorship as a discursively constructed function presumes shifts in authorial identity as texts cross discursive boundaries, rendering ‘international’ authorship a fragmented, unstable category. Emerging at the intersection of textual, individual and institutionalised realities, the author‐function is vulnerable to…
World Authorship as a Struggle for Consecration
Whilst many writers from the former GDR are unfamiliar to readers outside the Germanspeaking world, Christa Wolf is an author with a “world” presence, whose work can be read in more than thirty different languages. This international profile was established by the publication and translation of Wolf’s Nachdenken uber Christa T. (1968; The Quest for Christa T., 1970), a text that impressed one American reviewer with its “earned rather than fashion…
The Playwright as Epic Translator? Mother Courage and the Intertextual Construction of an ‘English Brecht’
Since the earliest translations of Brecht's plays into English, translators, directors and actors alike have struggled to reconcile a desire for textual accuracy with a style of performance that is considered ‘Brechtian’. While the dialectic between text and performance is celebrated by Brecht's theories of theatre, his translated texts are often seen to bear sole responsibility for ‘fidelity’ to a concept of the Brechtian, and the continuing eme…
Hostage to Feminism? The Success of Christa Wolf's Kassandra in its 1984 English Translation
Christa Wolf is amongst the best known and the most widely translated writers of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), and a figurehead of modern German literature. 1 Her work is available in over thirty languages, and amongst these it is the economically and politically powerful English language that has provided the most comprehensive translated corpus of her texts.One of the reasons for this enduring appeal and presence in the Anglophon…
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