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Translator Self-Training--Portuguese
A Practical Course in Technical Translation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Designed to improve translation skills in Portuguese.
Dreaming in Chinese
Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Deborah Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs in...
by Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print
The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration...
Borrowed Tongues
Life Writing, Migration, and Translation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
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Translation as Allegorical Metafiction: Marlene Nourbese Philip and Jamaica Kincaid
Eva C. Karpinski
The last chapter examines translation as allegorical metafiction in Marlene Nourbese Philip’s Looking for Livingstone and Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother.These...
The Gods are Athirst
Bilingual Edition (English - French)
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.
by Dante Alighieri
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
An exquisite medley of lyrical verse and poetic prose, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) ranks among the supreme revelations in the literature of love. Its allegorical view of the soul's crisis and growth combines a narrative with meditations, dreams, songs, and prayers.In this masterpiece of his youth, Dante...
by Ales Steger
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Rising star in world-poetry
First U.S. edition of Alexs Steger's most acclaimed poetry collection.
Translated by acclaimed translator and poet Brian Henry
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring distinctions between "the original" and its reproductions, and with globalization redefining...
by Robert Graves
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Lucius Apuleius, a young man of good parentage, takes a trip to Thessaly. Along the way, amidst a series of bizarre adventures, he inadvertently offends a priestess of the White Goddess, who promptly turns him into an ass. How Lucius responds to his new misfortune, and ultimately finds a way to become...
Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue
An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright is a hybrid text, innovatively combining literary criticism, experimental translation, and scholarly commentary. This work centres on a German-language prose text by Yoko Tawada entitled ‘Portrait of a Tongue’ [‘Porträt...
by Yannick Renaud
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
All Is Flesh collects in one volume Hugh Hazelton’s English translations of Yannick Renaud’s brilliant first two books of poems, Taxidermy and The Disappearance of Ideas, first published by Éditions Les Herbes rouges in Montreal.
Taxidermy is a discourse on time consisting of prose poems...
The Naughty Little Book of Gaelic
All the Scottish Gaelic You Need to Curse, Swear, Drink, Smoke and Fool Around
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Scottish Highlanders, and their descendants all over the world, are no better and no worse than any other people where “sinful” behaviour is concerned. Standards of morality and social conventions changed dramatically during the 19th century – and most of the people engaged in recording and...
They Divided the Sky
A Novel by Christa Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only because of the political positions they gradually develop but, very concretely, by the Berlin Wall, which...
The Hermes Complex
Philosophical Reflections on Translation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
When Hermes handed over to Apollo his finest invention, the lyre, in exchange for promotion to the status of messenger of the gods, he relinquished the creativity that gave life to his words.
The trade-off proved frustrating: Hermes chafed under the obligation to deliver the ideas and words...