Translation, Humour and Literature: Translation and Humour Volume 1 - Continuum Advances in Translation Nippod edition

Marc Notes: Originally published: 2010.; Includes bibliographical references and index.;'Translation, Humour and Literature' examines the issues relating to translating humour within a range of different literary traditions and across various languages. Table of Contents: Series Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Translation and Humour, Humour and Translation / Delia Chiaro -- Part I. Translating Humour in Society -- 2. Linguistic Factors in Humour / Graeme Ritchie -- 3. Translating English into English in Jokes and Humour / Christie Davies -- Part II. Translating Humour in Antiquity -- 4. Translating Aristophanes into English / Michael Ewans -- 5. Translating Greece to Rome: Humour and the Re-invention of Popular Culture / I. A. Ruffell -- Part III. Translating the Humour of the Great literary Tradition -- 6. Rewriting the French Tradition: Boccaccio and the Making of the Novella / Charmaine Lee -- 7. Translating Humour for Performance: Two Hard Cases from Inoue Hisashi's Play, Yabuhara Kengyo / Marguerite Wells -- 8. The Laughing Word of James Joyce / Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli, Samuel P. Whitsitt -- 9. Translating Humphry Clinker's Verbal Humour / Marta Mateo -- 10. Language-based Humour and the Untranslatable: The Case of Ziad Rahbani's Theatre / NadaElzeer -- Part IV. Coda -- 11. Tripartite: Cross-talk Acts / Walter Redfern -- Index. Publisher Marketing: 'Translation, Humour and Literature' examines the issues relating to translating humour within a range of different literary traditions and across various languages. Contributor Bio:  Chiaro, Delia Delia Chiaro is Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Bologna, Italy.