Translating and literary agenting: Anna Holmwood's Legends of the Condor Heroes.
The role of literary agents in translation is intriguing yet under-researched. The mechanism of literary agenting vis-à-vis the initiation and promotion of translated literature is unexplored. This essay attempts to fill the gap by analyzing how Anna Holmwood, the principal translator and co-literar...
| Publicado en: | Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 30; no. 6; pp. 1059 - 1074 |
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Dec2022
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