Staging and Performing Translation: Text and Theatre Practice
This exploration of the territory between theory and practice in contemporary theatre features essays by academics from theatre and translation studies, and delineates a new space for the discussion of translation in the theatre that is international, critical and scholarly, while rooted in experience and understanding of theatre practices.
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- Full title :Staging and Performing Translation : Text and Theatre Practice.
Summary
This exploration of the territory between theory and practice in contemporary theatre features essays by academics from theatre and translation studies, and delineates a new space for the discussion of translation in the theatre that is international, critical and scholarly, while rooted in experience and understanding of theatre practices.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication:Basingstoke
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (292 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780230294608, 023029460X, 9780230228191, 0230228194
- oclc:ocn700707029
- LC Classification:PN886.S73 2011
- Dewey Decimal:792.1
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Table; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Explorations and Experiments in Theory and Practice; 1 Metaphor and Metonymy: the Translator-Practitioner's Visibility; 2 The Translator as metteur en scène, with Reference to Les Aveugles [The Blind] by Maurice Maeterlinck; 3 Musical Realizations: a Performance-based Translation of Rhythm in Koltès' Dans la solitude des champs de coton.
4 The Theatre Sign Language Interpreter and the Competing Visual Narrative: the Translation and Interpretation of Theatrical Texts into British Sign Language5 Inferential Meaning in Drama Translation: the Role of Implicature in the Staging Process of Anouilh's Antigone; Part II: Practical Perspectives on Translation, Adapting and Staging; 6 Translating Bodies: Strategies for Exploiting Embodied Knowledge in the Translation and Adaptation of Chinese Xiqu Plays; 7 Brecht's The Threepenny Opera for the National Theatre: a 3p Opera?
8 The Translator as Cultural Promoter: or how Renato Gabrielli's Qualcosa Trilla went on the Road as Mobile Thriller9 Cow-boy poétré: a Bilingual Performance for a Unilingual Audience; Part III: In Conversation with…
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