Book review
Klaus Kaindl, Waltraud Kolb & Daniela Schlager, eds. Literary Translator Studies
(Benjamins Translation Library, 156). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2021. vii, 313 pp.

Reviewed by Lin Chen
Southwest Jiaotong University
Publication history

Date received: 15 June 2021

Date accepted: 13 August 2021

Published online: 2 September 2021

Table of contents

Translation Studies (TS) has in recent decades undergone a growing shift from focusing on translation products and processes to focusing on translators (and interpreters) themselves (e.g., Hu 2004; Pym 1998), giving birth to “Translator Studies,” a subfield of TS covering research “primarily and explicitly on the agents involved in translation” (Chesterman 2009, 20). Chesterman perceptively points out the continuing lack of coherent research on translators in TS and proposes an “agent model” (Chesterman 2009, 19) to fill this gap. However, issues regarding the development of translator-centered conceptual and theoretical frameworks and methodologies have remained largely unaddressed until recently.

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