Sameh Hanna

Bourdieu in Translation Studies

The Socio-cultural Dynamics of Shakespeare Translation in Egypt

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the implications of Pierre Bourdieüs 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781138803626
• ISBN-10: 1138803626
• Artikelnr.: 42739635

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, Bourdieüs sociology and Shakespeare in Arabic 2. Bourdieüs 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