Examining Text and Authorship in Translation: What Remains of Christa Wolf?

by Caroline Summers

Book Overview

This book, the first in-depth study of authorship in translation, explores how authorial identity is 'translated' in the literary text. In a detailed exploration of the writing of East German author Christa Wolf in English translation, it examines how the work of translators, publishers, readers and reviewers reframes the writer's identity for a new reading public. This detailed study of Wolf, an author with a complex and contested public profile,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319401823
• ISBN13: 9783319401829
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"