Sameh Hanna

Bourdieu in Translation Studies (eBook, PDF)

The Socio-cultural Dynamics of Shakespeare Translation in Egypt

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the implications of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of cultural production for the study of translation as a socio-cultural activity. With focus on the Arabic translations of Shakespeare's tragedies in Egypt, this book offers a detailed analysis of the theory of 'fields of cultural production' with the purpose of providing a fresh perspective on the genesis and development of drama translation in Arabic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317621584
• Artikelnr.: 44865456

Autorenporträt

Sameh Hanna is a lecturer in Arabic literature and translation at the University of Leeds. His research interests include sociology of translation and Shakespeare translation into Arabic on which he published a number of peer-reviewed articles and chapters in edited volumes. He also published a new edition of the first Arabic translation of Hamlet, with an introduction.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The 'social turn' in translation studies, Bourdieu's sociology and
Shakespeare in Arabic 2. Bourdieu's sociology of cultural production: what
is in a translation 'field'? 3. Genesis of the field of drama translation
in Egypt: the first Arabic Hamlet 4. Translators' agency and new
translation products: de-commercialising the 'Arabic Shakespeare' 5.
Explaining retranslation: the dialectic of 'ageing' and 'distinction' 6.
'Breaking the silence of doxa': iconoclastic translations 7. Towards a
methodology for a sociology of translation