Dramatic Licence: Translating Theatre from One Official Language to the Other in Canada
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Louise Ladouceur (Author) Richard Lebeau (Contributor)
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Translation is tricky business. The translator has to transform the foreign to the familiar while moving and pleasing his or her audience. Louise Ladouceur knows theatre from a multi-dimensional perspective that gives her research a particular authority as she moves between two of the dominant cultures of Canada: French and English. Through the analysis of six plays from each linguistic repertoire, written and translated between 1961 and 2000, her award-winning book compares the complexities of a translation process shaped by the power struggle between Canada's two official languages. The winner of the Prix Gabrielle-Roy and the Ann Saddlemyer Book Award, Dramatic Licence addresses issues important to scholars and students of Translation Studies, Canadian Literature and Theatre Studies, as well as theatre practitioners and translators. The University of Alberta Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada, through the National Translation Program for Book Publishing, for our translation activities. Foreword by E.D. Blodgett.
About the Author
Louise Ladouceur is Professor at the University of Alberta's Campus Saint-Jean, Edmonton, Alberta, where she is in charge of the Theatre Studies Program and the theatre company Theatre au Pluriel. Richard Lebeau is a translator who currently lives in Edmonton.
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- Contributor: Louise Ladouceur
- Imprint: University of Alberta Press
- ISBN13: 9780888645388
- Number of Pages: 300
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x18mm
- Packaged Weight: 430
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: University of Alberta Press
- Release Date: 2012-07-15
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Louise Ladouceur is Professor at the University of Alberta's Campus Saint-Jean, Edmonton, Alberta, where she is in charge of the Theatre Studies Program and the theatre company Theatre au Pluriel. Richard Lebeau is a translator who currently lives in Edmonton.
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