De-sacralizing the origin(al) and the transnational future of Translation Studies

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ID12183228
AuthorsBrian James Baer (0000-0002-5238-0258, Modern and Classical Language Studies, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume25
Issue2
Pages227-244
Publication date2016-08-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePerspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0907-676X • E-ISSN: 1747-6623
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0907676x.2016.1211157
OpenAlexW2515035445
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited24

This article begins with the premise that the shift from source-oriented approaches in Translation Studies to target-oriented approaches has left the concept of the original largely undertheorized. As such it remains haunted by Romantic notions of originality that in turn associate translation with loss, distortion, and contamination. Tracing the transnational circulation of a Russian-themed English poem, Thomas Moore’s ‘Those Evening Bells’, and its Russian translation, the author models a kind of cultural transfer that has long been ignored in literary studies and translation studies as ‘inauthentic’. Only by historicizing the concept of the original, the author argues, can Translation Studies fully participate in the transnational turn in cultural studies, serving as an important critical site for interrogating the legacy of Romanticism it has until now merely replicated

Aesthetics · Art · Cultural turn · Linguistics · Literature · Originality · Poetry · Premise · Romance · Romanticism · Social science · Sociology · Translation studies · European Cultural and National Identity · History · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices

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