Translating Virginia Woolf

Oriana Palusci is Full Professor of English at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’. Her publications include volumes and articles on Translation Studies, World Englishes, Utopia, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies. On Woolf she has authored Le dimore del tempo. Mrs Dalloway, Orlando, Mrs Woolf (1996) and has edited La tipografia nel salotto: saggi su Virginia Woolf (1999). In the field of Translation and Gender, she has edited: Traduttrici. Questioni di gender nelle letterature in lingua inglese (2010) and Traduttrici. Female Voices across Languages (2011).

• Contents: Oriana Palusci: Introduction: Virginia Woolf in Many Languages – Vita Fortunati: Anna Banti Translates Jacob’s Room – Alessia Oppizzi: Point of View and the Danish Translation of Jacob’s Room – Paola Faini: The Challenge of Free Indirect Speech in Mrs Dalloway – Franco Paris: A Strange Case: The Reception and Translation of Virginia Woolf in the Netherlands – Pierpaolo Martino: Translating Virginia Woolf’s Music – Maria Alessandra Giovannini: Carmen Martín Gaite Translates To the Lighthouse – Paola Laura Gorla: Did Borges Translate Orlando? – Ivonne Defant: East and West Germany Battle with Orlando – Mirko Casagranda: A Systemic Functional Approach to Translating Point of View Shift in Flush – Lovro Škopljanac: Translating Male and Female Discourses in Between the Acts – Anna Maria Cimitile: ‘The weight of every word’: Virginia Woolf’s A Haunted House and Three Italian Translations – Paola Viviani: ‘Acting like a Thief’: Fāṭimah Nā‘ūt Translates Virginia Woolf in Egypt – Lada Čale Feldman: The Common Reader Translated and Re-edited: Woolf and the Question of a « Lecture Féminine » – José Santaemilia: A Room of One’s Own in Spanish: from Borges to a Feminist Translation – Iva Grgić Maroević: The Fatal Loss: Virginia Woolf’s ‘One’ and its Destiny in Croatian, Serbian and Italian Translations – Lisbeth Larsson: A Thousand Libraries: Swedish Readings of A Room of One’s Own – Oriana Palusci: Virginia Woolf’s storia parallela: Translating Three Guineas into Italian – Eleonora Federici: Translating Feminist Discourses in Virginia Woolf’s «Anon».