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[no author]. 1992. Theories of translation: an anthology of essays from Dryden to Derrida. Chicago: University of Chicago. vi + 254 pp.
Publication type
Edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
17th century | 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | historical approach=historiography=history | language | linguistic approach=linguistics | literary approach=literary discourse=literature | philosophical approach=philosophy | poetry=poem | problem-solving=problem | semantics | semiotics | theory=translation theory=interpreting theory | translation | translation method=method
Source language
English | Spanish
Target language
English | Spanish
Person as a subject
Derrida, Jacques | Dryden, John
Main ISBN
0-226-04870-5
Edition info
Papeback ISBN: 0-226-04871-3

Abstract

Spanning the seventeenth to the twentieth century, and ranging across cultures, from England to Mexico, this collection of essays provides an overview of the historical evolution in thinking about translation and offers a number of individual opinions by prominent contemporary theorists.
Source : Bitra

Articles in this volume

. On the art of translation. 11–16
. On translation. 17–31
. On language and words. 32–35
. From On the different methods of translating. 36–54
. From Introduction to his translation of Agamemnon. 55–59
. Translations. 60–63
. On the problem of translation. 68–70
. The task of the translator. 71–82
. Guido's relations. 83–92
. The misery and the splendor of translation. 93–112
. Variations on the Eclogues. 113–126
. Problems of translation: Onegin in English. 127–143
. Translation: literature and letters. 152–162
. The poetry of Constancy: Paul Celan's translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 105. 163–185
. Translating poetry. 186–192
. Semantic theory and translation theory. 193–203
. Transposing presuppositions on the semiotics of literary translation. 204–217
. From Des tours de Babel. 218–227
. Translating and being translated. 228–238

Reviewed by

[no author]. 1994. Review of Theories of translation: an anthology of essays from Dryden to Derrida. TEXTconTEXT 9 (2) : 147–150.