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Literary source texts may be time-marked because they are simply old, and/or because they refer to a time before their composition. Translators highlight various aspects of this time context via a range of ‘archaizing’ and ‘modernizing’ strategies. Using a three-way model of translation ideology (socio-political, intercultural and aesthetic/communicational), this article analyses how such strategies reproduce or modify source-text ideological values and/or add modern values. After surveying relevant translation scholarship and critical ‘metatexts’, it discusses these themes through a case-study of seven translators’ versions of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon (including Tony Harrison’s). The conclusion outlines a model of time-marking and ideology in literary translation.
Author(s): Jones FR
Editor(s): Bradbury, Nicola
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Translation
Year: 2006
Pages: 191-203
Series Title: Yearbook of English Studies v.36, n.1
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3508747
Notes: ISSN:0306-2473
