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‘Geldshark Ares god of war’: ideology and time in literary translation

Lookup NU author(s): Emeritus Professor Francis Jones

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Abstract

Literary source texts may be time-marked because they are simply old, and/or because they refer to a time before their composition. Translators highlight various aspects of this time context via a range of ‘archaizing’ and ‘modernizing’ strategies. Using a three-way model of translation ideology (socio-political, intercultural and aesthetic/communicational), this article analyses how such strategies reproduce or modify source-text ideological values and/or add modern values. After surveying relevant translation scholarship and critical ‘metatexts’, it discusses these themes through a case-study of seven translators’ versions of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon (including Tony Harrison’s). The conclusion outlines a model of time-marking and ideology in literary translation.

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Author(s): Jones FR

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Yearbook of English Studies

Year: 2006

Volume: 36

Issue: 1

Pages: 191-203

Date deposited: 10/06/2010

ISSN (print): 0306-2473

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3508747

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