Translation Studies

Informationen zum Autor Susan Bassnett is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick. She has published extensively on translation! and her best known books include Reflections on Translation (2011)! Constructing Cultures written with André Lefevere (1996) and Post-Colonial Translation co-edited with Harish Trivedi (1999). She translates from several languages and lectures on aspects of translation all over the world. Klappentext Professor Bassnett tackles the crucial problems of translation and offers a history of translation theory! beginning with the ancient Romans and encompassing key 20th-century structuralist work. The work includes the original text of The Seafarer. Zusammenfassung This 4th edition remains essential reading for anyone new to the field and has been updated to include The Cultural Turn in Translation Studies, Translation and Power, Postcolonial translation, Skopos theory, Translation and new technology, The ‘Translational Turn’, translation studies in the Chinese and Indian contexts, and translating for the theatre. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the fourth edition Introduction Chapter 1 Central issues Chapter 2 History of translation theory Chapter 3 Specific problems of literary translation Select bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Susan Bassnett, Bassnett Susan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.2013
• EAN: 9780415506700
• ISBN: 978-0-415-50670-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: New Accents
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, Translation & interpretation, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Translation and interpretation