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This Handbook presents the first comprehensive, state of the art overview of this multi-faceted disciplinary area. It is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of translation and interpreting history, translation theory and related areas.
List of contents
List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroduction: the Historiography of Translation and Interpreting
PART 1
Methods and Theories
1. About the History of Translation Studies as a Discipline
2, Methodological Issues Related to the History of Interpreting
3. The Use of Corpora and other Electronic Tools in Translation History
4. Narratology and Narrative Theory
5. National Histories of Translation
6. Conceptual Tools in Translation History
7. A Science of the Times? Descriptive Translation Studies and History
8. Pierre Bourdieu
PART II
Interdisciplinary Approaches
9. Comparative Literature and Translation History
10. The Translation State: Linguistic Governmentality as Language Politics in Early Modern France
11. History of Philosophy and Translation
12. The Historical Mis-interpretation of Signed Language Interpreting
13. Book History and Translation History
14. The Philosophy of History and Translation
PART III
Cultures and Religions
15. In Search of Translation: Why was
Hon'yaku not the Term of Choice in Premodern Japan?
16. The Task of Jewish Translation Revisited
17. Translation in Christian Tradition
18. Translation, Discursive Violence, and Aryanism in Early Indian Nationalism
19. Universal Wisdom, Islamic Law: Translation Discourse in Classical Arabic
20. The Development of Interpretation in the Context of Estonia's Evolving Statehood
21. Literary Translation and Nation-Building in Post-Independence Tanzania
PART IV
Key Themes
22. Feminists of All Languages Unite: Translation as Political Practice in the 1970s or a Historical View of Feminist Translation
23. Translating the Classics
24. Soldiers, Interpreters, Fixers, and Spies. A Finnish Military Interpreter Embodying the Finnish-German Brotherhood-in-Arms in 1941-1944
25. Translation and Transnational History in the Eighteenth Century
26. Travel Writing and Translation History
27. Researching the History of Audiovisual Translation
28. The International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation: Translation Policies in the Interwar Period (1925-1946)
29. Translation under Fascism and Nazism
30. Literary Translation as an Instrument of Censorship in Soviet Russia. The Institutionalisation of the Soviet translator
Index
About the author
Christopher Rundle is Associate Professor in Translation Studies at the Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna, Italy; and Research Fellow in Translation and Italian Studies at the School of Arts and Languages, University of Manchester, UK.
Summary
This Handbook presents the first comprehensive, state of the art overview of this multi-faceted disciplinary area. It is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of translation and interpreting history, translation theory and related areas.
