The reception of post-Soviet Russian fiction through the peritexts of Finnish translations.
This article is based on research addressing the reception of post-Soviet Russian fiction in the twenty-first century (2000–2023) through Finnish translations and the notions of Russia and Russian literature mediated through them. The investigation of translated fiction draws on imagology, i.e. the...
| Publicado en: | Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 418 - 432 |
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