Translation Studies / Edition 3

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Overview

"In the late 1970s a new academic discipline was born: Translation Studies. We could not read literature in translation, it was argued, without asking ourselves if linguistics and cultural phenomena really were 'translatable' and exploring in some depth the concept of 'equivalence'." Twenty years after publication, the field of translation studies continues to grow, but one thing has not changed: updated for the second time, Susan Bassnett's Translation Studies remains essential reading.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780415280143
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 9/2/2002
  • Series: New Accents Series
  • Edition description: 2nd Edition
  • Edition number: 3
  • Pages: 192
  • Product dimensions: 5.20 (w) x 7.70 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Susan Bassnett is Professor of Comparative Literary Studies and Head of the Centre for British and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick.

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Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Preface to the third edition 1
Introduction 11
1 Central issues 21
Language and culture 21
Types of translation 22
Decoding and recoding 23
Problems of equivalence 30
Loss and gain 36
Untranslatability 37
Science or 'secondary activity'? 43
2 History of translation theory 45
Problems of 'period study' 46
The Romans 48
Bible translation 51
Education and the vernacular 55
Early theorists 58
The Renaissance 60
The seventeenth century 62
The eighteenth century 65
Romanticism 67
Post-Romanticism 70
The Victorians 71
Archaizing 74
The twentieth century 75
3 Specific problems of literary translation 79
Structures 79
Poetry and translation 83
Translating prose 110
Translating dramatic texts 119
Conclusion 132
Notes 135
Select bibliography 146
App The original text of The Seafarer 165
Index 169
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