The Handbook represents History of Translation as a global field, avoiding focusing only on the history of its development in Western Europe and including a range of historical contexts, from the earliest discourses in Assyria, Egypt, Israel, China, India, and Greece, to the early 20th century when Translation Studies emerged […]
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In 2023 and 2024, Daniele Monticelli and Kristiina Rebane published two articles that focus on Italian–Estonian literary contacts. Monticelli, Daniele; Rebane, Kristiina (2023). ‘Progressista’, ‘fantastico’ e/o ‘postmoderno’? I Calvini estoni dal Dopoguerra al nuovo Millennio. Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani, 38 (2), 1−21. DOI. Monticelli, Daniele; Rebane, Kristiina (2024). […]
Together with Ivana Hostová, Oleksandr Kalnychenko, and Martin Djovcoš, Daniele Monticelli published the article “Addressing Power Imbalances in Research and Translation Studies.” DOI
In the recent publication by Tartu University Press, Dialogues with Peeter Torop. Festschrift in Honour of Peeter Torop’s 75th Birthday, Daniele Monticelli contributed the article “Translation as Autocommunication: A Peeter Torop–Inspired Analysis of the Estonian Translation of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.” The volume is edited by […]
The chapter by Monticelli in The Routlegde Handbook of Translation and Censorship (2025) tells the history of translation and censorship in the territory of modern Estonia from the first half of the 16th century to the end of the Soviet era in 1991, when censorship was finally abolished. The chapter […]
The last issue of the journal Schnittstelle Germanistik (2024), which brings together East European Germanic studies, has published Saagpakk’s article Aspekte der estnischen Übersetzungskultur in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. In it, Saagpakk focuses on presenting the methods and functions of adaptation techniques prevalent in the mid-19th century. The article […]
The article treats the activities of Estonian exile publishers in the Soviet Union (1918–1937) and in the West (1944–1991), concentrating on the publications of translated literary works. The analysis includes the study of the motives for publishing literary translations and the functions these publications were supposed to fulfil in these […]
The paper explores the serialised novels and stories in the two leading Estonian daily newspapers, Päewaleht and Postimees, the majority of which were translations. The approach, combining book and translation history, is driven by the two issues debated in the media in 1900–1940: the desire to distance from the dominant […]
The chapter “Russian Literature in Estonia between 1918 and 1940 with Special Reference to Dostoevsky” gives a survey of translations from Russian literature made in Estonia in 1918–40 against the backdrop of the latter nation’s cultural development. Translation is understood as a practice affected by social contingencies and cultural exchanges. […]
Journal of Eurasian Studies published Anna Verschik’s article on translations of Ukrainian poetry into Estonian. The reaction of Ukrainian poets to the full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine in February 2022 has been remarkable and was noticed all over the world. Understandably, interest towards Ukraine increased, and translation of Ukrainian poetry […]
The voluminous publication with 27 articles from the scholars in the Baltic states and Germany, but also Italy and Great Britain was published in January 2024. „Baltische Erzähl- und Lebenswelten. Kultur-, literatur-, translations- und sprachwissenschaftliche Aspekte“ provides insights into contemporary research on the literary, cultural, artistic, and linguistic relations between […]
The special issue „Translation and Literary Multilingualism“, edited by Daniele Monticelli, Maris Saagpakk, and Anna Verschik, offers a wide range of views on literary multilingualism in translation. The articles examine how the translation of multilingualism silences or amplifies the voices in other languages in literary works, and what attitudes towards […]
Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontovs article “An Attempt to Account for Distributed Cognition in Translating the Poetry of Juhan Viiding” ontinues the author’s research into the creative process of writing and translating poetry. It is preparatory work for translating the poetry of one of Estonia’s most widely read and appreciated poets, Juhan Viiding […]
“Translation Studies in Ukraine as an Integral Part of the European Context” edited by Martin Djovčoš (Matej Bel University), Mária Kusá (Comenius University, Slovak Academy of Sciences), Ivana Hostová (Slovak Academy of Science) and Emília Perez (Department of Translation Studies, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia) was published in […]
Monticelli’s and Ahi’s article „Gianni Rodari’s Adventures of Cipollino in Russian and Estonian: translation and ideology in the USSR“ focuses on the role that literature played after World War II in the ideological transformation of citizens of the communist countries of Eastern Europe into the so-called Homo Sovieticus. Along with original literature, […]
The collective volume “Translation Under Communism” is the first attempt to gather research on the history of translation in the USSR and other communist regimes in Eastern Europe. The book has been edited by Christopher Rundle, Anne Lange, and Daniele Monticelli and was published by Palgrave Macmillan. The volume examines […]
Maris Saagpakk and Marianne Laura Saar’s article „Widerspiegelung der Mehrsprachigkeit des historischen Baltikums in den ‚Briefen eines baltischen Idealisten an seine Mutter‘ von Georg Julius von Schultz und ihre Übermittlung in der Übersetzung ins Estnische“ is a quantitative study of heteroglossic voices in the letters of Baltic German doctor, philologist […]
Miriam Rossi explores the development of the tamizdat and samizdat in the Soviet Union, focusing on these literary realms’ links to “the West”. She suggests that despite the intensely normative and oppressive environment that writers existed within, they continued to find ways and spaces to avoid Soviet censorship and to […]
Anne Lange’s article was published in the volume “The Situatedness of Translation Studies. Temporal and Geographical Dynamics of Theorization” (2021), edited by Luc van Doorslaer and Ton Naaijkens. The article focuses on Peeter Torop’s concept of total translation as it stems out of the Tartu-Moscow semiotic school of thought and […]
Daniele Monticelli’s article “Translating the Soviet Thaw in the Estonian Context: Entangled Perspectives on the Loomingu Raamatukogu Book Series” was published in the Journal of Baltic Studies 51/3, Entangled Cultures in the Baltic Region special issue (2020). This article develops a multi-layered analysis of the Estonian Loomingu Raamatukogu book series within the context of the Soviet Thaw. […]