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008			110325s2012 enk b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781107010185
040			_aSDU
050	0	0	_aPR6045 _bD142 V 2012
100	1		_aDalgarno, Emily. _9210829
245	1	0	_aVirginia Woolf and the migrations of language / _cEmily Dalgarno.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_a215 p.
505	8		_aHKBU Library
520			_a"Virginia Woolf's rich and imaginative use of language was partly a result of her keen interest in foreign literatures and languages - mainly Greek and French, but also Russian, German and Italian. As a translator she naturally addressed herself both to contemporary standards of translation within the university, but also to readers like herself. In Three Guineas she ranged herself among German scholars who used Antigone to critique European politics of the 1930s. Orlando outwits the censors with a strategy that focuses on Proust's untranslatable word. The Waves and The Years show her looking ahead to the problems of postcolonial society, where translation crosses borders. In this first in-depth study of Woolf and European languages and literatures, Emily Dalgarno opens up a rewarding new way of reading her prose"--
520			_a"The need to change the structure of the English sentence in order better to meet the requirements of women writers is a constant theme in the work of Virginia Woolf. She wrote during a period when the goals of translation were undergoing fundamental changes that enlarged and facilitated that project. The British translator who was compelled to observe the ethnocentric standards of Greek translation in the university evolved within a few decades into a figure whose aim, in response to the demands of colonial readers, was to mediate between cultures. It is the argument of this book that although Woolf read translations to acquaint herself with the diverse cultures of the world, as a writer she quickly learned to use translation as a means to resist the tendency of the dominant language to control meaning, the first step to remodeling semantics and syntax"--
600	1	0	_aWoolf, Virginia, _d1882-1941 _xKnowledge and learning. _9210830
600	1	0	_aWoolf, Virginia, _d1882-1941 _xLanguage. _9210831
650		0	_aTranslating and interpreting _xPhilosophy. _9181380
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh _9198023
900			_a = C.1 SDU
942			_cGBE _2lcc
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