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Children's Literature in Translation

Children's classics from Alice in Wonderland to the works of Astrid Lindgren, Roald Dahl, J.K. Rowling and Philip Pullman are now generally recognized as literary achievements that from a translator's point of view are no less demanding than 'serious' (adult) literature. This volume attempts to explore the various challenges posed by the translation of children's literature and at the same time highlight some of the strategies that translators can and do follow when facing these challenges. A variety of translation theories and concepts are put to critical use, including Even-Zohar's polysystem theory, Toury's concept of norms, Venuti's views on foreignizing and domesticating translations and on the translator's (in)visibility, and Chesterman's prototypical approach. Topics include the ethics of translating for children, the importance of child(hood) images, the 'revelation' of the translator in prefaces, the role of translated children's books in the establishment of literary canons, the status of translations in the former East Germany; questions of taboo and censorship in the translation of adolescent novels, the collision of norms in different translations of a Swedish children's classic, the handling of 'cultural intertextuality' in the Spanish translations of contemporary British fantasy books, strategies for translating cultural markers such as juvenile expressions, functional shifts caused by different translation strategies dealing with character names, and complex translation strategies used in dealing with the dual audience in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales and in Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories.

King of Battle and Blood

Isolde kijkt totaal niet uit naar haar trouwdag. Ze zou nog liever sterven. Om een oorlog te beëindigen, moet ze trouwen met vampierkoning Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev en hem doden. Haar moordaanslag mislukt echter en Adrian dreigt haar in een vampier te veranderen als ze het opnieuw probeert. Isolde zal een manier moeten vinden om te overleven tussen de meedogenloze vampiers, zonder er zelf een te worden. En van iedereen aan het hof is Adrian het gevaarlijkst. Zijn aantrekkingskracht zou haar dood kunnen betekenen... 'King of Battle and Blood' is het eerste deel in de Adrian x Isolde-serie van Scarlett St. Clair. Eerder schreef ze al de inmens populaire vierdelige Hades x Persephone-serie.

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