Acknowledgments vii
Notes on contributors ix
Introduction: Cultures of translation 1
Brian James Baer
part i. Contexts
Shifting contexts: The boundaries of Milan Kundera’s Central Europe 19
Charles Sabatos
Nation and translation: Literary translation and the shaping
of modern Ukrainian culture 33
Vitaly Chernetsky
Vasilii Zhukovskii as translator and the protean Russian nation 55
David L. Cooper
Romania as Europe’s translator: Translation in Constantin Noica’s
national imagination 79
Sean Cotter
Translating India, constructing self: Konstantin Bal’mont’s India
as image and ideal in Fin-de-siècle Russia 97
Susmita Sundaram
The water of life: Resuscitating Russian avant-garde
authors in Croatian and Serbian translations 117
Sibelan Forrester
Translation trouble: Translating sexual identity into Slovenian 137
Suzana Tratnik
part ii. Subtexts
Between the lines: Totalitarianism and translation in the USSR 149
Susanna Witt
Translation theory and cold war politics: Roman Jakobson
and Vladimir Nabokov in 1950s America 171
Brian James Baer
The poetics and politics of Joseph Brodsky as a Russian poet-translator 187
Yasha Klots
Squandered opportunities: On the uniformity of literary
translations in postwar Hungary 205
László Scholz
Meaningful absences: Byron in Bulgarian 219
Vitana Kostadinova
part iii. Pretexts
Translated by Goblin: Global challenge and local response
in Post-Soviet translations of Hollywood films 235
Vlad Strukov
“No text is an island”: Translating Hamlet in twenty-first-century Russia 249
Aleksei Semenenko
Russian dystopia in exile: Translating Zamiatin and Voinovich 265
Natalia Olshanskaya
Between cosmopolitanism and hermeticism: Translating classical
tragedy into Polish theater 277
Allen J. Kuharski
The other polysystem: The impact of translation on language
norms and conventions in Latvia 295
Gunta Ločmele and Andrejs Veisbergs
Translation as condition and theme in Milan Kundera’s novels 317
Jan Rubeš
Index 323
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