AustLit

This book chapter is an exploration of questions raised in this research.

Dixon, Robert and Robert Thomson. 'Australian Literature in the Translation Zone: Robert Dessaix and David Malouf' in Resourceful Reading: The New Empiricism, eResearch and Australian Literary Culture. Eds. Katherine Bode and Robert Dixon. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2009. 87-104.

Abstract

Dixon applies the techniques of close and 'distant' reading to explore contemporary Australian literature in the 'translation zone' with other languages. He discusses the influences, national and international, which lead to translations, and the significance of translators.