Conference of the Tongues

Informationen zum Autor Theo Hermans is Professor of Dutch and Comparative Literature and Director of the Centre for Intercultural Studies at University College London. A founding member of the Translation Research Summer School and the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies, he also edits the series Translation Theories Explored for St Jerome Publishing. He is the author of several books, including Translation in Systems and The Structure of Modernist Poetry, and editor of Translating Others, Crosscultural Transgressions and The Manipulation of Literature. Zusammenfassung The Conference of the Tongues offers a series of startling reflections on fundamental questions of translation Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. The End Words from above Vienna's treaties Versions of authority Authentication in a minor key 2. Before the End Hostile dynasties Self-reference Metatranslation 3. Irony's Echo Translation, quotation, demonstration Reported speech Echoic translation 4. Real Presence Uccello's predella Transubstantiation Figuration Conversion 5. Connecting Systems System Form Training Observation History 6. The Thickness of Translation Studies Domestic representations The thick of it Understood?

Product details

• Authors: Theo Hermans, Theo (University College London Hermans, Hermans Theo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2016
• EAN: 9781138147553
• ISBN: 978-1-138-14755-3
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Translation & interpretation, Translation and interpretation