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Fakery, Serious fun and Cultural Change: Some Motives of the Pseudo-Translator
Glyn Pursglove
Hermeneus, Volume: 13, Pages: 151 - 176
Swansea University Author: Glyn Pursglove
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Abstract
Writers have produced pseudo-translations for many different reasons, including the prospect of commercial advantage, spurious claims to authority, sheer mischief or as a means to a kind of personal creative liberation - and for many other motives too. It is striking that pseudo-translations seem to...
| Published in: | Hermeneus |
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| ISSN: | 1139-7489 |
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Valladolid
Hermeneus
2011
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11188 |
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Writers have produced pseudo-translations for many different reasons, including the prospect of commercial advantage, spurious claims to authority, sheer mischief or as a means to a kind of personal creative liberation - and for many other motives too. It is striking that pseudo-translations seem to proliferate with particular vigour at times of cultural or generic transition (as previously noted by Gideon Toury). This study considers acts of pseudo-translation by three english writers -Walter Savage Landor, Sir Richard Burton and Peter Russell - offering observations both on their motives and their methods as practitioners of this deceltive art. |
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| Keywords: |
Adcock, Fleur; Banville, Theodore de; Burton, Sir Richard francis; Collins, William; De Quincey, Thomas; forgery; Haering, G.W.; Haji Abdu El-Yezdi; Hermans, Theo; Julius Caesar; Landor, Walter, Savage; Larkinn, Philip; Leonidas of Tarentum; Macpherson, James; Ossian; pseudo-translation; Quintilius; Russell, Peter; Santayana, George; Scott, Sir Walter; Toury, Gideon; Walpole, horace |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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151 |
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176 |