TY  - CHAP
A1  - Bodola, Ronja
T1  - The act of reading in translation : on Wolfgang Iser's self-translatability
T2  - Selbstübersetzung als Wissenstransfer / Stefan Willer, Andreas Keller (Hg.) ; LiteraturForschung ; Bd. 39
N2  - This article takes the renowned study "Der Akt des Lesens" (1976) by Wolfgang Iser and its translation "The Act of Reading" (1978) as its starting point. The differences between the two texts are discussed in terms of Iser's own idea of translatability as a cultural practice that was outlined in the short text "On Translatability". This theoretical frame will shed light on the decisions made in his own translations, and will help to develop a conceptualization of self-translation as a practice inherent in cultural change. [...] I will propose a combination of two concepts, Iser's 'translatability' (in II.) and the notion of 'autocommunication' by Lotman (III.), to suggest a concept of self-translation that entails three interrelated aspects: a) translation as a rewriting of the text as such, b) translation as continued work on one's argument as well as c) the re-translation back to the original source as a manifestation of a change in one's thought structure - Änderungen der eigenen Denkstruktur, as one of Werner Heisenberg's papers is entitled, and to which I will come back in my conclusion (IV.). Hence, the focus is mainly systematic and conceptual, however, I will first comment on my example of self- and re-translation and start with a comparison of different versions of Iser's "Der Akt des Lesens" and the shorter texts that led to the actual monograph.
KW  - Iser, Wolfgang
KW  - Übersetzung
KW  - Eigenübersetzung
KW  - Iser, Wolfgang: Der Akt des Lesens
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/85893
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-858933
SN  - 978-3-86599-467-7
N1  - Funding: BMBF ; 01UG1412
SP  - 303
EP  - 322
PB  - Kulturverlag Kadmos
CY  - Berlin
ER  -