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  • Adapting Translation for the Stage

    by Geraldine Brodie, Emma Cole ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Translating for performance is a difficult – and hotly contested – activity.Adapting Translation for the Stage presents a sustained dialogue between scholars, actors, directors, writers, and those working across these boundaries, exploring common themes and issues encountered when writing, staging, and researching translated works. It is organised into four parts, each reflecting on a theatrical ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Translator on Stage

    by Dr. Geraldine Brodie ...
    Series series Literatures, Cultures, Translation
    In today's theatre, productions of plays that originated in another language are frequently distinguished by two characteristics: the authorship of the English text by a well-known local theatre specialist, and the absence of the term 'translation'-generally in favour of 'adaptation' or 'version'. The Translator on Stage investigates the creative processes that bring translated plays to the ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

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  • Dreaming in Chinese

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  • Goldoni: Two Plays

    The Venetian Twins; Mirandolina

    by Carlo Goldoni ...
    Translated by Ranjit Bolt ...
    Series series Oberon Classics
    In the year of the bicentenary of the death of Carlo Goldoni, one of Italy’s most brilliant dramatists, two of his greatest comedies are brought to life in Ranjit Bolt’s vibrant translations.The Venetian Twins is a classic tale of mistaken identity and the ensuing confusion. The play was given its premiere at the Royal Shakespeare Company in a production directed by Michael Bogdanov which enjoyed ... Read more

    $24.49 CAD

  • Against World Literature

    On the Politics of Untranslatability

    by Emily Apter ...
    Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution.In ... Read more

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  • Yellowman

    by Dael Orlandersmith ...
    These two raucously acclaimed new plays by Dael Orlandersmith, whom The New York Times has called "an otherworldly messenger, perhaps the sorcerer's apprentice, or a heaven-sent angel with the devil in her," confirm her reputation as one of the truly unique voices in contemporary American drama.In Yellowman, a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, Alma and Eugene have known each other ... Read more

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  • Imperial Babel

    Translation, Exoticism, and the Long Nineteenth Century

    by Padma Rangarajan ...
    At the heart of every colonial encounter lies an act of translation. Once dismissed as a derivative process, the new cultural turn in translation studies has opened the field to dynamic considerations of the contexts that shape translations and that, in turn, reveal translation’s truer function as a locus of power. In Imperial Babel, Padma Rangarajan explores translation’s complex role in shaping ... Read more

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  • Oppenheimer

    by Tom Morton-Smith ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    1939: fascism spreads across Europe, Franco marches on Barcelona and two German chemists discover the processes of atomic fission. In Berkeley, California, theoretical physicists recognise the horrendous potential of this new science: a weapon that draws its power from the very building blocks of the universe.Struggling to cast off his radical past and thrust into a position of power and authority ... Read more

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  • Proust, China and Intertextual Engagement

    Translation and Transcultural Dialogue

    by Shuangyi Li ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The book traces the literary journey that Proust’s work made to China and back by means of translation, intertextual engagement, and the creation of a transcultural dialogue through migrant literature. It begins with a translation history of Proust’s work in China and studies the different (re)translations and editions of La Recherche highlighting their culturally conditioned thematic emphases and ... Read more

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    by Tim Fountain ...
    Series series So You Want To Be...? career guides
    How to write a play and get it produced - a manual for playwrights.Playwright and former literary manager Tim Fountain guides the budding playwright over the many hurdles involved in getting a play on - from finding a story that only you know, through the detailed construction of the play, and on to the strategies you can use to get it on stage.• What kind of play do you want to write?• Where do ... Read more

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  • Identity and Theatre Translation in Hong Kong

    by Shelby Kar-yan Chan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book, Shelby Chan examines the relationship between theatre translation and identity construction against the sociocultural background that has led to the popularity of translated theatre in Hong Kong. A statistical analysis of the development of translated theatre is presented, establishing a correlation between its popularity and major socio-political trends. When the idea of home, often ... Read more

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