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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226048713

ISBN-139780226048710

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Number of Pages260 Pages

Publication NameTheories of Translation : an Anthology of Essays from Dryden to Derrida

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1992

SubjectLanguage, Translating & Interpreting

TypeTextbook

AuthorRainer Schulte

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight10.1 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN91-022882

Dewey Edition20

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal418/.02/09

Table Of ContentIntroduction 1. Hugo Friedrich On The Art of Translation 2. John Dryden On Translation 3. Arthur Schopenhauer On Language and Words 4. Friedrich Schleiermacher From On the Different Methods of Translating 5. Wilhelm von Humboldt From Introduction to His Translation of Agamemnon 6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Translations 7. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Preface to The Early Italian Poets 8. Friedrich Nietzsche On the Problem of Translation 9. Walter Benjamin The Task of the Translator 10. Ezra Pound Guido's Relations 11. José Ortega y Gasset The Misery and the Splendor of Translation 12. Paul Valéry Variations on the Eclogues 13. Vladimir Nabokov Problems of Translation: Onegin in English 14. Roman Jakobson On Linguistic Aspects of Translation 15. Octavio Paz Translation: Literature and Letters 16. Peter Szondi The Poetry of Constancy: Paul Celan's Translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 105 17. Yves Bonnefoy Translating Poetry 18. Henry Schogt Semantic Theory and Translation Theory 19. Michael Riffaterre Transposing Presuppositions on the Semiotics of Literary Translation 20. Jacques Derrida From Des Tours de Babel 21. Hans Erich Nossack Translating and Being Translated Biographies of the Essayists Select Bibliography

SynopsisSpanning 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.

LC Classification NumberP306.T453 1992