Johannes Kaminski (Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, Slovak

Lives and Deaths of Werther

Interpretation, Translation, and Adaptation in Europe and East Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

An investigation of how interepreations, translations, and literary adaptations of Goethe's novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther have left their mark on the original text. Kaminski situates the text's legacy among Italian, French, Chinese, and Japanese writers, and explores the dynamics of world literature.

Produktdetails

• British Academy Monographs
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780197267554
• ISBN-10: 0197267556
• Artikelnr.: 69192124

Autorenporträt

Dr Johannes Kaminski is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2011 and has held research posts at the University of Cambridge, Taipei, Vienna, and Comenius University Bratislava. As a scholar of comparative literature, Kaminski's research is focused on the literature of Goethezeit, Chinese modernism, and contemporary science-fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Joys and Sorrows of Interpretation
2: The Translator, Translated
3: Revolutionary Afterlives
4: Thanatological Revenants
Closing Remarks
Bibliography