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Queering translation history : Shakespeare's sonnets in Czech and Slovak transformations /

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This innovative work challenges normative binaries in contemporary translation studies and applies frameworks from queer historiography to the discipline to explore shifting perceptions of same-sex love and desire in translations and retranslations of William Shakespeare's sonnets.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spišiaková, Eva (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Routledge advances in translation and interpreting studies.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Translations into Czech > History and criticism.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Translations into Slovak > History and criticism.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Sonnets.
English poetry > Translations into Czech > History and criticism.
English poetry > Translations into Slovak > History and criticism.
Queer theory.
Translating and interpreting > Czech Republic.
Translating and interpreting > Slovakia.
Description
Summary:This innovative work challenges normative binaries in contemporary translation studies and applies frameworks from queer historiography to the discipline to explore shifting perceptions of same-sex love and desire in translations and retranslations of William Shakespeare's sonnets.
Physical Description:x, 123 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [105]-112) and index.
ISBN:9780367339067
0367339064