Theories of Translation
Theories of Translation

Author: Rainer Schulte

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2017-12-12

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 022618482X

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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, this volume will be a valuable resource for all those who translate, those who teach translation theory and practice, and those interested in questions of language philosophy and literary theory.

Marriage A-La-Mode
Marriage A-La-Mode

Author: John Dryden

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-06-13

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1408144263

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Dryden's audiences in 1671, both aristocratic and middle-class, would have been quick to respond to the themes of disputed royal succession, Francophilia and loyalty among subjects in his most successful tragicomedy. In the tragic plot, written in verse, young Leonidas has to struggle to assert his place as the rightful heir to the throne of Sicily and to the hand of the usurper's daughter. In the comic plot, written in prose, two fashionable couples (much more at home in London drawing-rooms than at the Sicilian court) play at switching partners in the 'modern' style. The introduction of this edition argues that Dryden's own ambivalence about King Charles and his entourage, on whom he came to rely more on more for patronage, manifests itself in both plots; most of all perhaps in the excessively Francophile Melantha, whose affectation cannot quite hide her endearing joie-de-vivre.

The Craft of Translation
The Craft of Translation

Author: John Biguenet

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1989-08-15

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780226048697

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These essays offer 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 rigorous methods of literary translation in comparisons of various translations of the same piece some discuss the problems of translating a specific passage others speak about the lessons learned over the course of a career in translation. As these essays make clear, translators work in the space between languages and, in so doing, provide insights into the ways in which a culture makes the world verbal. --From publisher's description.

Jane Austen for Beginners
Jane Austen for Beginners

Author: Robert Dryden

Publisher: For Beginners

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1934389617

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Jane Austen is one of the most popular writers in the English language, famous for her romantic novels such as Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma. Much attention has been generated around the life of the woman behind the fiction. For Beginners presents a straightforward and accessible guide to the life and works of this celebrated author in a lively and engaging manner. For Beginners covers a range of familiar concepts in a humourous comic book-style for those who want to know more about a subject without getting bogged down in dry facts.