Craft of Translation

Name: Craft of Translation
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ISBN: 9780226048697

ISBN-10: 0226048691

ISBN-13: 9780226048697

Edition: 1989

Authors: John Biguenet, Rainer Schulte

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Written by some of the most distinguished literary translators working in English today, these essays offer new and uncommon insights into the understanding and craft of translation. The contributors not only describe the complexity of translating literature but also suggest the implications of the act of translation for critics, scholars, teachers, and students. The demands of translation, according to these writers, require both comprehensive scholarship in preparing to translate a text and broad creativity in recreating the text in a new language. Translation, thus, becomes a model for the most exacting reading and the most serious scholarship. Some of the contributors lay bare the…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/15/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 170
Size: 0.57" wide x 0.85" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Introduction


No Two Snow Flakes Are Alike: Translation as Metaphor



Building a Translation, the Reconstruction Business: Poem 145 of Sor Juana Ineacute;s de la Cruz



Translating Medieval European Poetry



Collaboration, Revision, and Other Less Forgivable Sins in Translation



Pleasures and Problems of Translations



""Ziv, that light"": Translation and Tradition in Paul Celan



The Process of Translation



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