Translating Interpreting category: 690 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2008
Epigraphy is a method of inferring and analyzing historical data by means of inscriptions found on ancient artifacts such as stones, coins, and statues. It has proven indispensable for archaeologists and classicists, and has considerable potential for the study of ancient history at the undergraduate...
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Assembled by Nietzsche's sister after his death, The Will to Power is a collection of the philosopher's reflections and theories taken from his unpublished notebooks. Covering topics such as nihilism, Christianity, morality and the famous 'will to power', the book was controversially presented as...
Against World Literature
On the Politics of Untranslatability
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
A Companion to Translation Studies is the first work of its kind. It provides an authoritative guide to key approaches in translation studies. All of the essays are specially commissioned for this collection, and written by leading international experts in the field. The book is divided into nine...
Applying Luhmann to Translation Studies
Translation in Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This book deals with one of the most prominent and promising developments in modern Translation Studies--the sociology of translation. Tyulenev develops an original way of applying Luhmann's Social Systems Theory to translation, viewing translation as a social-systemic boundary phenomenon. The book...
by Rainer Guldin
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
In today’s ever-changing climate of disintegration and recombination, translation has become one of the essential metaphors, if not the metaphor, of our globalized world. Translation and Metaphor is an attempt to draw a comprehensive map of these new overlapping theoretical territories and the many...
by Michael Cronin
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Michael Cronin looks at how translation has played a crucial role in shaping debates about identity, language and cultural survival in the past and in the present. He explores how everything from the impact of migration on the curricula for national literature courses, to the way in which nations...
Spanish and Portuguese across Time, Place, and Borders
Studies in Honour of Milton M. Azevedo
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2014
Spanish and Portuguese Across Time covers a diverse range of topics with a common focus, on the dynamic nature of languages and the social forces that shape them across time, place, and borders, and demonstrates how linguistic principles can offer productive angles to the study of literature.
The Translation Zone
A New Comparative Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework...
Motherless Tongues
The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
In Motherless Tongues, Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history gleaned from the workings of translation in the Philippines, the United States, and beyond. Moving across a range of colonial and postcolonial settings, he demonstrates translation's agency in the...
Theories of Translation
An Anthology of Essays from Dryden to Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Spanning the centuries, from the seventeenth to the twentieth, and ranging across cultures, from England to Mexico, this collection gathers together important statements on the function and feasibility of literary translation. The essays provide an overview of the historical evolution in thinking...
by Sujit Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The wide-ranging essays presented in this book deal more with the practical than with the theoretical aspects of translation. The emphasis throughout is on the element of discovery inherent in the making as well as in the reading of translations. The author states that translation is necessary to any...
Language for God in Patristic Tradition
Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
Language for God in Patristic Tradition
What’S Up?
Vocabulary for Those New to the United States, Volume Ii
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Learning the lingo used in the United States can be hard enough for a native speaker, but its even more daunting for immigrants. Jimmy Gyasi Boateng, a native of Ghana, has been living in the US since 1978long enough to successfully adapt to life in a new place. Determining how to use vocabulary has...