19 th-Century Czech Translations of Uncle Tom's Cabin : What Has Been Left Unspoken
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24197/her.19.2017.96-120" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.24197/her.19.2017.96-120</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24197/her.19.2017.96-120" target="_blank" >10.24197/her.19.2017.96-120</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
19 th-Century Czech Translations of Uncle Tom's Cabin : What Has Been Left Unspoken
Original language description
The article aims to explore the translation strategies and politics of the two mid-19th century Czech translations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life among the Lowly (1852). Among other European cultures, Czechs (one of the nations of the multinational Austrian Empire) responded to Stowe's abolitionist novel immediately -both translations were published in 1853. However, the thesis of the article is that the response in each "local" European context carried and expressed its social and cultural characteristics. Therefore we consider the social and political experience of Czechs around 1848, the year of first liberal democratic revolutions in Europe, as a possible influence entering the approach of the publishers and translators to the Czech versions. These are viewed as results of what we call "productive reception". Because both are shorter adaptations, the comparative analysis is aimed at the strategies of "rewritings". As such it discovers very different strategies being used for adaptation in these two mid-19th century versions, which led to the creation of texts with very different messages. On the basis of researching subsequent history of Uncle Tomʼs Cabin in Czech, we suggest that the influence of one of the mid-19th century adaptations has prevailed in later Czech reception and belittled its political importance up to the present.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Hermeneus
ISSN
1139-7489
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Volume of the periodical
19
Issue of the periodical within the volume
19
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
25
Pages from-to
96-120
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85044931015