Translating Human Inner Life In and Between the Arts - (Bloomsbury Studies in Translation) by Malgorzata Gamrat (Hardcover)

About the Book

Examines how so-called human inner life (feelings, emotions, sentiments and self-reflection) can translated in different arts and between the arts.

Book Synopsis

The book examines how so-called human inner life - feelings, emotions, sentiments and self-reflection - permeates different forms of art.

The methodological perspective is multidimensional covering translation studies and semiotics studies, including semiotics of passion, semiotics of culture, existential semiotics and biosemiotics, as well as different arts' fields - music, literature, film, visual arts, multimedia and video games. The book combines these approaches and tools for each field in order to create a new approach that permits an examination of the process of translation in various arts connected to human inner life. In this way, the reader can see the complexity of human inner life from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Review Quotes

Malgorzata Gamrat has brought together here some remarkable researches on the transposition of inner life into the arts, against the backdrop of a common semiotic concept: translation. If we consider that the arts translate inner life, this means that it already has a semiotic form, which can be transposed into artistic expressions. The issue is the production of new cultural meanings. And Lotman has taught us that the more difficult the translation, the richer the meaning.
Jacques Fontanille, President of the International Association of Semiotics, University of Limoges, France

About the Author

Malgorzata Gamrat is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Arts Studies at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland.