The Translation Studies Reader

Venuti, Lawrence (ed)

ISBN 10: 0415187478 / ISBN 13: 9780415187473

Published by Routledge, London, 2000

About this Item

Illustrated wraps, 524 pp, pencil marks and notes.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Translation Studies Reader
• Publisher: Routledge, London
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415187478
• ISBN 13: 9780415187473
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Paperback Small Quarto.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Criticism

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Synopsis

The Translation Studies Reader is the definitive reader for the study of this dynamic interdisciplinary field. Providing an introduction to translation studies, this book places a wide range of readings within their social, thematic, and historical contexts. The selections included are from the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the last thirty years of the century. Features include:
*Organization into five chronological sections, divided by decade
*An introductory essay prefacing each section
*A detailed bibliography and suggestions for further reading.
Readings: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Walter Benjamin, Antoine Berman, Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Jorge Luis Borges, Annie Brisset, J.C. Catford, Lori Chamberlain, Jean Darbelnet and Jean-Paul Vinay, Itamar Even-Zohar, William Frawley, Ernst-August Gutt, Keith Harvey, Basil Hatim and Ian Mason, James S. Holmes, Roman Jakobson, Andre Lefevere, Jiri Levy, Philip E. Lewis, Vladimir Nabakov, Eugen Nida, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Ezra Pound, Willard V.O. Quine, Katharina Reiss, Gayatri Spivak, George Steiner, Gideon Toury, Hans J. Vermeer
A new piece by Lawrence Venuti suggests the future of translation studies.

About the Author

Lawrence Venuti is Professor of English at Temple University, Philadelphia. He is the author of Rethinking Translation(1992),The Translator's Invisibility(1994), andScandals of Translation (1997), all published by Routledge.