Translation and the Languages of Modernism

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Translation and the Languages of Modernism is written by S. Yao and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1137059796 (ISBN 10) and 9781137059796 (ISBN 13).

This study examines the practice and functions of literary translation in Anglo-American Modernism. Rather than approaching translation as a trans-historical procedure for reproducing semantic meaning between different languages, Yao discusses how Modernist writers both conceived and employed translation as a complex strategy for accomplishing such feats as exploring the relationship between gender and poetry, creating an authentic national culture and determining the nature of a just government, all of which in turn led to developments in both poetic and novelistic form. Thus, translation emerges in this study as a literary practice crucial to the very development of Anglo-American Modernism.