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Publication details [#43171]
Xiangjun, Liu. 2005. The utopia of translation. Perspectives: Studies in Translatology 13 (4) : 243–254.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper discusses Walter Benjamin's utopia of translation and its contribution to Translation Studies. He elevates the role of translation to a very high plane, underlines translation's non-communicability to readers, argues that translation doesn't carry across meaning, and gives translation a similar position to that of manual art reproduction.