Translation, History, & Culture Susan Bassnett (University of Warwick, Conventry, UK)

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A collection of essays which represent the different strands of work being undertaken in the field of translation studies. The book reflects the shift in emphasis away from a more descriptive form of translation to the view that translation occupies a central position in the development of culture.

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Translation, History, & Culture by Susan Bassnett (University of Warwick, Conventry, UK)

This varied collection of essays represents the differing strands of work currently being undertaken in the exciting new field of Translation Studies and reflects a shift of emphasis away from a more descriptive form of translation towards the idea that translation occupies a seminal position in the devlopment of culture. Susan Bassnett is Director of the Centre for British Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick. Andre Lefevere is Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Introduction - Proust's grandmother and the Thousand and One Nights; the cultural turn in translation studies; translation - its genealogy in the West; translation, text and pre-text; adequacy and acceptability in cross-cultural communication; translation and the consequences of scepticism; translation in oral tradition as a touchstone for translation theory and practice; translation, colonialism and poetics - Rabindranath Tagore in two worlds; culture as translation; linguistic polyphony as a problem in translation; linguistic transcoding or cultural transfer? - a critique of translation theory in Germany; theorizing feminist discourse/translation; translation and the mass media; translating the will to knowledge - preface and Canadian literary politics; translation as appropriation - the case of Milan Kundera's The Joke.

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9780304336227

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030433622X

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Translation, History, & Culture by Susan Bassnett (University of Warwick, Conventry, UK)

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Susan Bassnett (University of Warwick, Conventry, UK)

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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1996-02-01

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148

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Translation, History, & Culture by Susan Bassnett (University of Warwick, Conventry, UK)

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