From: Mona Baker <[log in to unmask]>
TRANSLATION AND 'THE CLASSIC'
Call for papers for a book to be published in 2005
Edited by Alexandra Lianeri and Vanda Zajko
The recent growth of interest in translation studies and classical
reception has led to greater attention being paid to the question of
translation. Yet no work has yet focused on the implications of
translation for the definition and evaluation of 'the classic'. In this
volume we seek to explore this subject from a number of perspectives by
bringing together scholars from classics, translation studies, literary
theory and philosophy. To this end we seek contributions addressing the
following and other relevant questions:
- Translation and the Classic proposes a framework in which the classic
figures less as an autonomous entity than as the result of the
interplay between source text and translation. What are the
consequences of this hypothesis for defining the classic text?
- What is the role of translations in the reception of classic texts?
Can we approach reception as a translation process? How does this
metaphor modify current views of the classic?
- How can translation qualify our conceptions of meaning and
interpretation of the classics? Can we define translatability without
referring to the binary opposition between 'fidelity' and 'infidelity'?
- How does translation illustrate the variability of aesthetic, moral,
and political standards that underlie the shaping of the canon, ancient
and modern?
- Can we redefine the classic by investigating the institutional,
cultural and political processes through which it is (re)constructed?
Alternatively, does the notion of the classic present a challenge to
certain representations of history?
- How have translations of classic texts reinforced class, gender, and
race divisions? Can they also provide a means of resistance to
oppressive political discourses?
Anyone interested in contributing should send a proposal of 500 words
to Dr. Alexandra Lianeri (Darwin College, Cambridge, [log in to unmask])
and Dr. Vanda Zajko (University of Bristol, [log in to unmask]) by the
end of January 2004.
Final submission length: 7,000-8,000 words.
Submission deadline: 30 September 2004.
If you have any further queries, please get in touch with either or
both of the editors.
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