Robson, James
(2007). Lost in Translation? The problem of (Aristophanic) humour.
In: Hardwick, Lorna and Stray, Christopher eds.
A Companion to Classical Receptions.
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World.
Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 168–182.
Abstract
This chapter considers the difficulties thrown up by translating Aristophanic humour in a discussion that takes as its starting point perspectives from the realm of both humour theory and translation studies. The focus on translations of Aristophanic plays throws up a range of pertinent issues concerning not just linguistic but also cultural transfer and provides a corpus of texts from which it is possible to discern the practical ways in which translators tackle the problem of humour.
| Item Type: |
Book Chapter
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| ISBN: |
1-4051-5167-6, 978-1-4051-5167-2 |
| Keywords: |
humour; translation; Aristophanes |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > Classical Studies |
| Item ID: |
9493 |
| Depositing User: |
James Robson
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| Date Deposited: |
27 Sep 2007 |
| Last Modified: |
02 Dec 2010 20:04 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/9493 |
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