Paratexts as an Instrument of Power. German Translations of Icelandic Prose around 1900

• Published in: CLINA: Revista Interdisciplinaria de Traducción, Interpretación y Comunicación Intercultural
• Main Author: Lerner, Marion
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2019
• Subjects: invisibility; paratext; peritext; epitext; Orientalism; Icelandic literature; invisibilidad; paratexto; peritexto; epitexto; orientalismo; literatura islandesa; Fuerte; Periferia; Iceland; Islandia
• Online Access: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/clina/article/view/clina201951181190; https://doi.org/10.14201/clina201951181190

Josef Calasanz Poestion was an influential author and translator from Icelandic into German. Among his translations was the first Icelandic novel, which he published several times. His translations are always accompanied by a series of paratexts, in which the translator’s presence is unusually stron...