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TamaraBrzostowska-Tereszkiewicz
INSTITUTEOFLITERARYSTUDIES
POLISHACADEMYOFSCIENCESANDHUMANITIES
TheTranslationalTurninModernismStudies*
ABSTRACT:
Terecenthistoriographicandmethodologicaldevelopmentsshowthatmodern-
ismstudieshasundergoneallthestagesnecessarytodiagnosea“translationalturn”in
agivendiscipline:theexpansionofthethematicfieldofresearchtoencompassthehistory
andpoeticsofliterarytranslation,theincreasingmetaphorisationofthenotionoftransla-
tioninthenarrativesoninterculturalexpansion,transmissionandtransformationofart,
and,finally,themethodologicalrefinement(“conceptualleap”)inthecourseofwhichthe
categoryoftranslationacquiredanepistemologicalvalueandtransdisciplinaryapplication.
KEYWORDS:
modernism,literarytranslation,culturalturn,translationalturn,comparative
literature
Onlyinthelasttwentyyearshastranslationstudiesbeguntoconverge
withthehistoriographyofmodernism.Strangeasitmayseem,giventhe
widelyacknowledgedcentralityoftranslationtotheevolutionofmodernist
literatureanditsexceptionalconcernforthematerialityoflanguagethere
hasbeen,untilrecently,noframework,eitherconceptualormethodologi-
cal,thatcouldintegratethesedisparateresearchtraditionsintoacoherent
bodyofknowledgeandprovideadequatetoolsforassessing“modernist
translations,”whetherasmediatorsbetweenculturesorasformsofcreative
writingintheirownright(seeBeasleyandBullock2011,294).Although
thisarticlefocusespredominantlyonAmericanandWesternEuropean
developmentsintranslationandmodernismstudies,itisworthtonotethat
asimilardiagnosiswasadvancedbyEasternEuropeanscholars.1Aslate
*
TispaperhasbeenwrittenaspartoftheresearchprojectModernistModelsofLiter-
aryTranslationfinancedbyTeNationalScienceCentre,Poland,DEC2011/01/B/HS2/03292.
InthisarticleIdrawonandconsiderablyexpandideasfirstpresentedinBrzostowska-Te-
reszkiewicz2013.
1TeCentralandEasternEuropeanperspectivewouldrequireaseparatestudyand
cannotbepursuedhere.
