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Recent Submissions
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Translation and the Cold War
(Routledge, 19 April 2018)This chapter considers how translation was used by the authorities in both the USSR and the West to shape the image of the ‘other’ in various aspects of the cultural Cold War, in projects largely funded by or connected to ... -
Russian Poetry and Cold War politics in the West
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Reading Backwards: An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature
(Open Book Publishers, 21 June 2021)This edited volume employs the paradoxical notion of ‘anticipatory plagiarism’—developed in the 1960s by the ‘Oulipo’ group of French writers and thinkers—as a mode for reading Russian literature. Reversing established ... -
Climbing the Mountain and Crossing the Wall: Politically Sensitive Post-Soviet Women’s Literature in Translation
(ITI: Institute of Translation and Interpreting, 3 August 2020) -
Translating Great Russian Literature: The Penguin Russian Classics
(Routledge, 4 January 2021)Launched in 1950, Penguin’s Russian Classics quickly progressed to include translations of many great works of Russian literature and the series came to be regarded by readers, both academic and general, as the de facto ...