Author: Figueira, Dorothy Matilda
Title: Translating the Orient. The Reception of Sakuntala in 19th-Century Europe
Description: Albany, State University of New York, (1991). orig.boards. 23x15cm, (6), 260 pp. Some rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Backround & Theoretical Considerations; Critical Reception & Methodology; 19th-Century Translation Conventions; An Introduction to the Sakuntala; Analysis of the Text; Errors in the Host Language: Grammatical Prejudices of the Sanskrit Language & the Horizon of the Text as a Nataka; Dramatic Adaptations; Traduttore traditore; India a Source of Inspriation or an Alibi for Despair.

Keywords: Comparative Literature, Kalidasa, Sanskrit Literature, South Asian, Indian Literatures, Translation, Literary Criticism, ,