Reflections On Translation

Author : Susan Bassnett
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 184769408X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Translation written by Susan Bassnett and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2011 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays brings together a decade of writings on translation by leading international translation studies expert, Susan Bassnett. The essays cover a range of topics and will be useful to anyone with an interest in how different cultures communicate.

Author : Paul St-Pierre
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027292523
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Translation – Reflections, Refractions, Transformations written by Paul St-Pierre and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions by researchers from India, Europe, North America and the Caribbean, In Translation – Reflections, refractions, transformations touches on questions of method and on topics – including copyright, cultural hybridity, globalization, identity construction, and minority languages – which are important for the disciplinary development of translation studies but also of interest to other fields as well, most notably comparative literature, cultural studies and world literature. The volume provides a forum for new voices to be heard alongside those of well-established scholars and for current concerns to express themselves, often focusing on practices in areas of the world other than Europe or North America, which have until now tended to dominate the field. Acknowledging difference and celebrating it, the contributions conceive of translation as a process which reconstitutes and transforms, which brings renewal and growth, an interaction in a new context, a new reading, a new writing.

Author : Andrew Chesterman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789027258786
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Translation Theory written by Andrew Chesterman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in different journals and collected volumes, these papers in conceptual analysis cover some central topics in translation theory and research: types of theory and hypothesis; causality and explanation; norms, strategies and so-called universals; translation sociology, and ethics. There are critical reviews of Catford's theory, and of Skopos theory, and of Kundera's views on literary translation, and detailed analyses of the literal translation hypothesis and the unique items hypothesis. The methodological discussions, which draw on work in the philosophy of science, will be of special relevance to younger researchers, for example those starting work on a doctorate. Some of the arguments and positions defended - for instance on the significant status of conceptual, interpretive hypotheses, and the ideal of consilience - relate to wider ongoing debates, and will interest any scholar who is concerned about the increasing fragmentation of the field and about the future of Translation Studies. Let the dialogue continue!

Author : William H. Gass
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0804150923
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Rilke written by William H. Gass and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-08-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatly admired essayist, novelist, and philosopher, author of Cartesian Sonata, Finding a Form, and The Tunnel, reflects on the art of translation and on Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies -- and gives us his own translation of Rilke's masterwork. After nearly a lifetime of reading Rilke in English, William Gass undertook the task of translating Rilke's writing in order to see if he could, in that way, get closer to the work he so deeply admired. With Gass's own background in philosophy, it seemed natural to begin with the Duino Elegies, the poems in which Rilke's ideas are most fully expressed and which as a group are important not only as one of the supreme poetic achievements of the West but also because of the way in which they came to be written -- in a storm of inspiration. Gass examines the genesis of the ideas that inform the Elegies and discusses previous translations. He writes, as well, about Rilke the man: his character, his relationships, his life. Finally, his extraordinary translation of the Duino Elegies offers us the experience of reading Rilke with a new and fuller understanding.

Author : Eugene Chen Eoyang
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824814298
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transparent Eye written by Eugene Chen Eoyang and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkably stimulating and erudite series of essays, Eugene Chen Eoyang explores many of the underlying paradigms and presumptions in world literature, highlighting issues of cultural interchange and cultural hegemony. Translation is seen in this perspective as a central rather than a peripheral factor in understanding the meanings of literary works. Taking concrete examples from Chinese literature, Eoyang illuminates not only the semantic collisions that underlie the complexities of translation, but also the cultural identities reflected in language and values. The title alludes to a passage from Emerson, reminding us that the object on view is not only the vision we see but is also the organ through which that vision is apprehended. The confrontation with a radical "other" - which is, for many Westerners, what Chinese literature represents - is thus both a discovery and a self-discovery. Part of the book's originality is that it identifies a new audience - one that is incipiently bicultural, or knowledgeable about what has been called "East" as well as what has been called "West." Readers with an interest in the theory and practice of translation will find this an inspiring and indispensable work, one that prepares the way for a comparative poetics that recognizes the intense subjectivities in every culture and at the same time establishes a basis for a comparison that tries to transcend, even as it acknowledges, provincialities.

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Author : Miljenko Jergovic
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 1939810523
Total Pages : 929 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kin written by Miljenko Jergovic and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kin is a dazzling family epic from one of Croatia's most prized writers. In this sprawling narrative which spans the entire twentieth century, Miljenko Jergović peers into the dusty corners of his family's past, illuminating them with a tender, poetic precision. Ordinary, forgotten objects - a grandfather's beekeeping journals, a rusty benzene lighter, an army issued raincoat - become the lenses through which Jergović investigates the joys and sorrows of a family living through a century of war. The work is ultimately an ode to Yugoslavia - Jergović sees his country through the devastation of the First World War, the Second, the Cold, then the Bosnian war of the 90s; through its changing street names and borders, shifting seasons, through its social rituals at graveyards, operas, weddings, markets - rendering it all in loving, vivid detail. A portrait of an era.

Author : Edmund Keeley
Publisher : Harwood Academic Pub
ISBN 13 : 9789057550713
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Translation written by Edmund Keeley and published by Harwood Academic Pub. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novelist, translator, and critic Edmund Keeley has been translating and studying the Modern Greek poets for over forty-five years. He began thinking of translation as a craft; but, as he points out in the preface to this fascinating collection of his thoughts and conversations about this complex process, "in the hands of its best practitioners, (translation is) a form of art that deserves abide on equal terms with all other literary arts".In this unusual study, Keeley also deals with the often neglected topic of the commerce of translation. Additionally he provides valuable insights into his collaboration as a translator with his wife, Mary, with Philip Sherrard and George Savidis, and with several of the poets he has translated. These partnerships have resulted in making the poetry of Cavafy, Elytis, Ritsos, Seferis, and Sikelianos internationally known and admired in the English-speaking world.

Author : Éric Poirier
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527521427
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Business and Institutional Translation written by Éric Poirier and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume of economic, business, financial and institutional translation increases daily. Governments strive to produce plain and accessible information. Institutions and agencies operate in more than one language. Multinationals produce documents in multiple languages to expand their services worldwide, and large businesses and SMEs also have to adopt a multilingual approach for accessing new markets in new countries. Translation and interpreting training institutions are aware of the increasing need for training in this area. This awareness is evident in their curricula, which include subjects related to these areas of activity. Trainers and researchers are increasingly interested in knowing and researching the intricacies and aspects of this type of translation. This peer-reviewed publication, resulting from ICEBFIT 2016, echoes the voices of translation practitioners, researchers, and teachers, as well as other parties gathered to discuss new issues in institutional translation and business, finance and accounting translation, as well as, in a larger sense, specialized translation.

Author : Andrew Chesterman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265763
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Translation Theory written by Andrew Chesterman and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in different journals and collected volumes, these papers in conceptual analysis cover some central topics in translation theory and research: types of theory and hypothesis; causality and explanation; norms, strategies and so-called universals; translation sociology, and ethics. There are critical reviews of Catford’s theory, and of Skopos theory, and of Kundera’s views on literary translation, and detailed analyses of the literal translation hypothesis and the unique items hypothesis. The methodological discussions, which draw on work in the philosophy of science, will be of special relevance to younger researchers, for example those starting work on a doctorate. Some of the arguments and positions defended – for instance on the significant status of conceptual, interpretive hypotheses, and the ideal of consilience – relate to wider ongoing debates, and will interest any scholar who is concerned about the increasing fragmentation of the field and about the future of Translation Studies. Let the dialogue continue!