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Title: A Companion to Translation Studies
Author(s): Bermann, Sandra; Porter, Catherine
Print ISBN: 9780470671894
eISBN: 9781118613467
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 13 Jan, 2014
Description
This companion offers a wide-ranging introduction to the rapidly expanding field of translation studies, bringing together some of the best recent scholarship to present its most important current themes
Features new work from well-known scholars
Includes a broad range of geo-linguistic and theoretical perspectives
Offers an up-to-date overview of an expanding field
A thorough introduction to translation studies for both undergraduates and graduates
Multi-disciplinary relevance for students with diverse career goals
Table of Contents
Cover
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
From Translation to Translation Studies
Translation Studies Today
Organization of the Companion
Current Trends and New Directions
References and Further Reading
Part I: Approaches to Translation
Histories and Theories
Methodologies
Technologies
Part II: Translation in a Global Context
Intercultural Perspectives on Translation
Translation and the Postcolonial
Identities in Translation
Translation and Comparative World Literature
Part III: Genres of Translation
Varieties of Translation Practice
Translating the Sacred
Intralingual Translation and Questions of History
Index
Author Information
Sandra Bermann is Cotsen Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Master of Whitman College at Princeton University, USA. She was Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton for twelve years, and co-founded the university’s program in Translation and Intercultural Communication. In addition to articles and reviews in scholarly journals, she is the author of The Sonnet over Time: Studies in the Sonnets of Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Baudelaire (1988), and the translator of Alessandro Manzoni’s On the Historical Novel (1996). Prof Bermann also co-edited Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation (2005), with Michael Wood. She recently completed a term as President of the American Comparative Literature Association.
Catherine Porter is Visiting Professor in the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, USA, and Professor of French Emerita at the State University of New York at Cortland, where she chaired the Department of International Communications and Culture from 1985–91 and from 1997–2001. She has translated some three dozen books and numerous essays from the French, including recent renderings of Avital Ronell’s Fighting Theory, The Animal Side by Jean-Christophe Bailly, and Luc Boltanski’s The Foetal Condition. Prof Porter was the 2009 President of the Modern Languages Association. |
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