Questions for Translation Studies

This chapter, as the Introduction (A, Sections 1–2) makes clear, explores the notion that translators (re)narrate the source text in translating it, adding their own narratorial voice or style to it; this is part of the DTS attention to target-side phenomena associated with translation. In the Theory section (B, Sections 3–11), we shift to a “post-classical” narratological intervention offered by Jan-Louis Kruger, with a focus not on “structural” roles like implied author and implied r