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Translated Poe (Paperback)
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Translated Poe (Paperback)
Series: Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe
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Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world
literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so
much of their current reputations to the process of translation.
Translated Poe brings together 31 essays from 19 different
national/literary traditions to demonstrate Poe's extensive
influence on world literature and thought while revealing the
importance of the vehicle that delivers Poe to the
world-translation. Translated Poe is not preoccupied with judging
the "quality" of any given Poe translation nor with assessing what
a specific translation of Poe must or should have done. Rather, the
volume demonstrates how Poe's translations constitute multiple
contextual interpretations, testifying to how this prolific author
continues to help us read ourselves and the world(s) we live in.
The examples of how Poe's works were spread abroad remind us that
literature depends as much on authorial creation and timely
readership as on the languages and worlds through which a piece of
literature circulates after its initial publication in its first
language. This recasting of signs and symbols that intervene in
other cultures when a text is translated is one of the principal
subjects of the humanistic discipline of Translation Studies,
dealing with the the products, functions, and processes of
translation as both a cognitive and socially regulated activity.
Both literary history and the history of translation benefit from
this book's focus on Poe, whose translated fortune has helped to
shape literary modernity, in many cases importantly redefining the
target literary systems. Furthermore, we envision this book as a
fountain of resources for future Poe scholars from various global
sites, including the United States, since the cases of Poe's
translations-both exceptional and paradigmatic-prove that they are
also levers that force the reassessment of the source text in its
native literature.
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