Notes on Russian Influences on the Nineteenth Century French Novel

Chamberlain, John L.

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“…Gorky revised Mother repeatedly; in 1922 it was published for the first time in the USSR, with stylistic and structural changes. In 1949, Margaret Wettlin (1907)-a US-born teacher of English and translator who lived in the USSR from 1934 to 1980-translated this 1922 version, which became the standard version for translation and distribution abroad by Soviet publishers. It was thus in Wettlin's translation that the novel was first introduced to Ethiopia in the 1960s.…”

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“…This process is inextricable from the growth of Slavonic Studies in British and American universities between 1870, when the first lectures on the topic were delivered at Oxford, and 1946, when US donors established major interdisciplinary research institutions, the Davis and Harriman Centres, at Harvard and Columbia respectively. Important early advocates for Russian literature included, in the US, Willian Dean Howells (1837-1920) and William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943, and in the UK, Virginia Woolf (1882) and Bernard Pares (1867-1949. Howells and Woolf Note the change in tone from Bowring's earlier reception of Russian poetry.…”

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Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context

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Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context examines the translation and reception of Russian literature as a world-wide process. This volume aims to provoke new debate about the continued currency of Russian literature as symbolic capital for international readers, in particular for nations seeking to create or consolidate cultural and political leverage in the so-called ‘World Republic of Letters’. It also seeks to examine and contrast the mechanisms of the translation and uses of Russian literature across the globe. This collection presents academic essays, grouped according to geographical location, by thirty-seven international scholars. Collectively, their expertise encompasses the global reception of Russian literature in Europe, the Former Soviet Republics, Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Their scholarship concentrates on two fundamental research areas: firstly, constructing a historical survey of the translation, publication, distribution and reception of Russian literature, or of one or more specific Russophone authors, in a given nation, language, or region; and secondly, outlining a socio-cultural microhistory of how a specific, highly influential local writer, genre, or literary group within the target culture has translated, transmitted, or adapted aspects of Russian literature in their own literary production. Each section is prefaced with a short essay by the co-editors, surveying the history of the reception of Russian literature in the given region. Considered as a whole, these chapters offer a wholly new overview of the extent and intercultural penetration of Russian and Soviet literary soft power during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This volume will open up Slavonic Translation Studies for the general reader, the student of Comparative Literature, and the academic scholar alike.

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Introduction

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2024

Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context

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In the introduction to Translating Russian Literature in a Global Context, the editors explain the key notions, questions, and methodological theories that underpin this volume. Our introduction addresses the function of Russian literature as a global vehicle for Soviet soft power during the Cold War, contrasting this open market with the subsequent reception of post-Soviet writing internationally. It briefly discusses the uncertain future of literary translation from Russian, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The editors situate this survey within a brief historiography of the academic study of Russian literary translation. We conclude with an overview of those countries and regions which will be discussed in dedicated sections of the edited volume, explaining why we were not able to commission essays on every part of the globe.

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Russian Literature in Europe

Maguire

2024

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Notes on Russian Influences on the Nineteenth Century French Novel

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