Product Description

Research across a number of disciplines has in recent years contributed to a rapidly developing knowledge and understanding of the cross-cultural transformation and reception of children's literature. It is the purpose of this Reader to gather together, for the first time, essays published during the last thirty years on the history, challenges and difference of translating for the young reader.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #427924 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 259 pages

Review
"In the last few decades a number of European scholars have paid an increasing amount of attention to children's literature in translation. This book not only provides a synthetic account of what has been achieved in the field, but also makes us fully aware of all the textual, visual and cultural complexities that translating for children entails..... Students of this subject have had problems in finding a book that attempted an up-to-date and comprehensive review of the field. Gillian Lathey's Reader does just this. Dr Piotr Kuhiwczak, Director, Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies University of Warwick."

About the Author
Gillian Lathey is Reader in Children's Literature at Roehampton University and Acting Director of the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature. Publications include a comparative study of the representation of war in German and British children's literature, and articles on translation for children and the reading histories of German-Jewish child refugees in the UK in the 1930s and 40s.