Translation and Creativity

Argues that translation is, and can be studied and practiced as, creative writing. The idea of creativity in translation is addressed from several perspectives, including linguistics, philosophy, gender studies, literary criticism, and pedagogy. This book systematically covers the unifying theme of creativity in eleven chapters.
Translation and Creativity discusses the links between translation and creative writing from linguistic, cultural, and critical perspectives, through eleven chapters by established academics and practitioners. The relationship between translation and creative writing is brought into focus by theoretical, pedagogical, and practical applications, complemented by language-based illustrative examples. Innovative research and practice areas covered include ideas of self-translation and the 'spaces' of reading, mental 'black boxes' and cognition and the book introduces new concepts of transgeneric translation, pop translation and orthographical translation.