Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- The other Europe -- Translation and belatedness -- Translation and empire -- Translation under communism -- Uses of translation -- Works cited -- Contexts -- Shifting contexts -- Introduction -- "Kidnapped" in translation: The essay's publication history -- Centro-Eurocentrism and its "others" -- Small nations and the relevance of culture -- In and out of context: The impossibility of tracing borders -- Works cited -- Nation and translation -- Ukrainian translation and its contexts -- Translation and Ukraine's cultural history prior to Soviet rule -- Independence, Soviet Domination and translation's changing fortunes -- Translation in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Challenges and hopes -- Works cited -- Vasilii Zhukovskii as translator and the protean Russian nation -- Introduction -- The formation of Zhukovskii's practice -- The reception of Zhukovskii's translations -- Gogol intervenes -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Romania as Europe's translator -- Works cited -- Translating India, constructing self -- Longing for the foreign -- The crisis in European drama -- Sakuntala in Europe and Russia -- Bal'mont and Sakuntala -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- The water of life -- Introduction -- Josip Sever's Majakovskij -- Danilo Kiš's Cvetaeva -- Irena Vrkljan's Cvetaeva -- Dubravka Ugrešić's Harms -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Translation trouble -- Introduction -- Cultural context -- Queer strategies -- Translating Lesbian culture -- Translator as author -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Subtexts -- Between the lines -- Totalitarianism and translation -- Soviet translation as culture planning -- Soviet projects and practices -- Translators and "intuitive translation" -- Stretching the space in between.

Conclusion -- Works cited -- Translation theory and cold war politics -- Introduction -- Biographical background -- Theoretical positions -- Aesthetic positions -- Political subtexts -- Works cited -- The poetics and politics of Joseph Brodsky as a Russian poet-translator* -- First steps -- The trial and northern exile -- Before emigration -- W.H. Auden and Brodsky's conception of language -- Works cited -- Squandered opportunities -- Works cited -- Meaningful absences -- Introduction -- Horizons of expectations -- Otherness and identity -- Manfred - Superman and Bolshevik -- Works cited -- Pretexts -- Translated by Goblin -- Introduction -- Historical overview of film translation in Russia -- Goblin's (im)proper translations -- Goblin's discordant creations -- When 'anti' becomes 'pro' -- Goblin as a figure of authority -- Works cited -- "No text is an island" -- Introduction -- The dual canon -- The new century -- 1999-Rapoport -- 2001-Poplavskij -- 2001-Koršunova -- 2002-Černov -- 2003-Peškov -- 2008-Cvetkov -- Concluding remarks -- Works cited -- Russian dystopia in exile -- Introduction -- The dawn of soviet dystopia -- Moscow 2042: Postmodern dystopia in translation -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Between cosmopolitanism and hermeticism -- Introduction -- The paradox of Kochanowski and classical tragedy in Polish theater -- The cultural politics of translation -- From Kochanowski to Zadara -- Zadara's tragic trilogy -- Postscript -- Works cited -- The other polysystem -- Historical background -- Translation and the Latvian language -- Translation, globalization and language -- Norms and conventions -- Preliminary norms -- Initial norms -- Operational norms -- Other translated texts -- Translations and original writing -- Linguistic impact of translated texts -- Phrase level and grammar -- Colloquial loans -- Traditional neoclassical loans.

Semantic borrowing -- Substitution of loans -- Indirect influence and norm and convention shifts -- Conversion -- Change of plural/singular system -- Midclippings -- Negative attributes -- Word formation -- Blends -- Compound phrases -- Contextual use of idoms -- Conclusions -- Works cited -- Translation as condition and theme in Milan Kundera's novels -- Works cited -- Index -- The series Benjamins Translation Library.