Theories of Translation An Anthology of Essays from Dryden to Derrida

Name: Theories of Translation An Anthology of Essays from Dryden to Derrida
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ISBN: 9780226048710

ISBN-10: 0226048713

ISBN-13: 9780226048710

Edition: 1992

Authors: John Biguenet, Rainer Schulte

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Spanning the centuries, from the seventeenth to the twentieth, and ranging across cultures, from England to Mexico, this collection gathers together important statements on the function and feasibility of literary translation. The essays provide an overview of the historical evolution in thinking about translation and offer strong individual opinions by prominent contemporary theorists. Most of the twenty-one pieces appear in translation, some here in English for the first time and many difficult to find elsewhere. Selections include writings by Scheiermacher, Nietzsche, Ortega, Benjamin, Pound, Jakobson, Paz, Riffaterre, Derrida, and others. A fine companion to The Craft of Translation,…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.39" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction



On The Art of Translation




On Translation




On Language and Words




From On the Different Methods of Translating




From Introduction to His Translation of Agamemnon




Translations




Preface to The Early Italian Poets




On the Problem of Translation




The Task of the Translator




Guido's Relations




The Misery and the Splendor of Translation




Variations on the Eclogues




Problems of Translation: Onegin in English




On Linguistic Aspects of Translation




Translation: Literature and Letters




The Poetry of Constancy: Paul Celan's Translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 105




Translating Poetry




Semantic Theory and Translation Theory




Transposing Presuppositions on the Semiotics of Literary Translation




From Des Tours de Babel




Translating and Being Translated



Biographies of the Essayists


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