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Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 5
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
[Handbook of Translation Studies 5] 2021
► pp. 247–253

World literature and translation

| University of Santiago de Compostela
Article outline
  • 1.Translation as world literature
  • 2.Translation for world literature
    • 2.1Born-translated
    • 2.2Untranslatability
  • References
  • Further essential reading
Published online: 16 September 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hts.5.wor2
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Apter, Emily. 2006. The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Bassnett, Susan. 2019. Translation and World Literature. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Casanova, Pascale. 2004. The World Republic of Letters, trans. by M. B. DeBevoise. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
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