[ecrea] call for papers - edited collection on adaptation/translation

> Proposed call for papers for edited collection 
> on adaptation/translation: Â  Adapting, 
> Translating, Transforming   In recent years 
> adaptation studies has tried to establish itself 
> as a discipline in its own right, with the 
> appearance of several works - both theoretical 
> and empirical - such as Linda Hutcheon's "A 
> Theory of Adaptation" (2005) and Thomas Leitch's 
> "Adaptation Studies and Its Discontents" (2007). 
> While adaptation studies considers itself 
> interdisciplinary in focus, the bulk of its 
> activity to date has been restricted to 
> literature and/or film studies departments, 
> focusing on questions of textual transfer - i.e. 
> what is gained and what is lost by transforming 
> a literary text into a film. There needs to be 
> further research into what the act of adaptation 
> involves and whether it differs from other acts 
> of textual rewriting. Â  Meanwhile the 
> â??cultural turnâ?? in translation studies has 
> prompted many scholars, following Jakobson, to 
> consider adaptation as a form of inter-semiotic 
> translation, and to produce a growing body of 
> work on the â??translationâ?? of literary forms 
> into other media, including film. There seems to 
> be a need to revisit both translation studies 
> and adaptation studies, focusing in particular 
> on possible differences between the two 
> disciplines, as well as areas of crossover. This 
> kind of research can open up new areas of 
> interdisciplinary study in both subject areas - 
> translation and adaptation studies. Â  With this 
> in mind, we seek to put together a collection of 
> essays from colleagues in both disciplines, 
> focusing in particular on what the terms 
> 'adaptation' and 'translation' actually mean; 
> whether they are interchangeable or whether they 
> are fundamentally different processes. We would 
> welcome contributions that focus on the 
> following issues: Â          * the role of the 
> translator and whether it differs from that of 
> an adapter     * the metaphorical meanings of 
> both terms: translation as transformation or 
> transfer, adaptation as psychological adjustment 
> to a particular context.   * translation and 
> adaptation as politically loaded terms        * 
> the semiotic systems underlying translation and 
> adaptation    * 'openness' versus 'restriction' 
> - do translations differ from adaptations in the 
> way they approach either the source or the 
> target text?      * social constructions: the 
> translator as mediator between two languages and 
> two cultures; the adapter as mediator between 
> media and cultures;  * the role of the 
> imagination and/or the emotions in the act of 
> translation or adaptation       * the role of 
> the academy and/or recent scholarship in shaping 
> attitudes towards both disciplines We are 
> interested in various types of contribution: a) 
> theoretical interventions that deal with both 
> translation and adaptation in terms of recent 
> scholarship in both disciplines; b) personal 
> accounts of how a text was either adapted or 
> translated in specific contexts, focusing in 
> particular on those forces - social, political, 
> cultural - that shaped the act of 
> transformation. This might take the form of a 
> critical analysis of a particular adapterâ??s or 
> translatorâ??s work. c) first hand accounts from 
> professional â??re-writersâ?? as to what the 
> terms mean to them. They may either take the 
> form of response-papers, or accounts of their 
> own work. Â  What we are looking for is a 
> diversity of material, emphasizing the ways in 
> which both 'translation' and 'adaptation' at 
> once parallel yet are fundamentally different 
> from one another. There is no hard and fast word 
> limits, but contributions over 4000 words would 
> be particularly welcome. The book can only help 
> to strengthen the status of both disciplines. 
> Â  Contributions, in the form of short (150-250 
> word) proposals, should be sent to the joint 
> editors, Laurence Raw 
> ((l_rawjalaurence /at/ yahoo.com)) and Joanne Collie 
> ((mail /at/ jmacollie.co.uk)) by 31 December 2009.
>
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