TY - BOOK
T1 - Prismatic Jane Eyre
T2 - Close-reading a world novel across languages
AU - Reynolds, Matthew
AU - Claro, Andrés
AU - Drury, Annmarie
AU - Frank, Mary
AU - Gaudio, Paola
AU - Gould, Rebecca Ruth
AU - Habjan, Jernej
AU - Huang, Yunte
AU - Jain, Abhishek
AU - Kelbert, Eugenia
AU - Kragh, Ulrich Timme
AU - Klitgård, Ida
AU - Kütt, Madli
AU - dos Santos, Ana Teresa Marques
AU - Pazos-Alonso, Cláudia
AU - Philippou, Eleni
AU - Qasmiyeh, Yousif M.
AU - Rychen, Léa
AU - Sabiron, Céline
AU - Tahmasebian, Kayvan
AU - Vitali, Giovanni Pietro
PY - 2023/11/14
Y1 - 2023/11/14
N2 - Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translated more than six hundred times into over sixty languages. Prismatic Jane Eyre argues that we should see these many re-writings, not as simple replications of the novel, but as a release of its multiple interpretative possibilities: in other words, as a prism. Prismatic Jane Eyre develops the theoretical ramifications of this idea, and reads Brontë's novel in the light of them: together, the English text and the many translations form one vast entity, a multilingual world-work, spanning many times and places, from Cuba in 1850 to 21st-century China; from Calcutta to Bologna, Argentina to Iran. Co-written by many scholars, Prismatic Jane Eyre traces the receptions of the novel across cultures, showing why, when and where it has been translated (and no less significantly, not translated - as in Swahili), and exploring its global publishing history with digital maps and carousels of cover images. Above all, the co-authors read the translations and the English text closely, and together, showing in detail how the novel's feminist power, its political complexities and its romantic appeal play out differently in different contexts and in the varied styles and idioms of individual translators. Tracking key words such as 'passion' and 'plain' across many languages via interactive visualisations and comparative analysis, Prismatic Jane Eyre opens a wholly new perspective on Brontë's novel, and provides a model for the collaborative close-reading of world literature. Prismatic Jane Eyre is a major intervention in translation and reception studies and world and comparative literature. It will also interest scholars of English literature, and readers of the Brontës.
AB - Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translated more than six hundred times into over sixty languages. Prismatic Jane Eyre argues that we should see these many re-writings, not as simple replications of the novel, but as a release of its multiple interpretative possibilities: in other words, as a prism. Prismatic Jane Eyre develops the theoretical ramifications of this idea, and reads Brontë's novel in the light of them: together, the English text and the many translations form one vast entity, a multilingual world-work, spanning many times and places, from Cuba in 1850 to 21st-century China; from Calcutta to Bologna, Argentina to Iran. Co-written by many scholars, Prismatic Jane Eyre traces the receptions of the novel across cultures, showing why, when and where it has been translated (and no less significantly, not translated - as in Swahili), and exploring its global publishing history with digital maps and carousels of cover images. Above all, the co-authors read the translations and the English text closely, and together, showing in detail how the novel's feminist power, its political complexities and its romantic appeal play out differently in different contexts and in the varied styles and idioms of individual translators. Tracking key words such as 'passion' and 'plain' across many languages via interactive visualisations and comparative analysis, Prismatic Jane Eyre opens a wholly new perspective on Brontë's novel, and provides a model for the collaborative close-reading of world literature. Prismatic Jane Eyre is a major intervention in translation and reception studies and world and comparative literature. It will also interest scholars of English literature, and readers of the Brontës.
U2 - 10.11647/OBP.0319
DO - 10.11647/OBP.0319
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85180878648
SN - 9781800648432
BT - Prismatic Jane Eyre
PB - Open Book Publishers
ER -