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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816370903321

Autore

Venuti Lawrence

Titolo

Translation changes everything : theory and practice / / Lawrence Venuti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-10795-5

0-203-07442-4

1-283-89413-0

1-135-10796-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

418/.02

Soggetti

Translating and interpreting

Intercultural communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; TRANSLATION CHANGES EVERYTHING: Theory and Practice; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 TRANSLATION, COMMUNITY, UTOPIA; 2 THE DIFFERENCE THAT TRANSLATION MAKES: The translator's unconscious; 3 TRANSLATING DERRIDA ON TRANSLATION: Relevance and disciplinary resistance; 4 TRANSLATING JACOPONE DA TODI: Archaic poetries and modern audiences; 5 RETRANSLATIONS: The creation of value; 6 HOW TO READ A TRANSLATION; 7 LOCAL CONTINGENCIES: Translation and national identities; 8 TRANSLATION, SIMULACRA, RESISTANCE; 9 TRANSLATIONS ON THE BOOK MARKET; 10 TEACHING IN TRANSLATION

11 THE POET'S VERSION OR, AN ETHICS OF TRANSLATION; 12 TRANSLATION STUDIES AND WORLD LITERATURE; 13 TRANSLATION TREBLED: Ernest FarreĢs's Edward Hopper in English; 14 TOWARDS A TRANSLATION CULTURE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In Translation Changes Everything leading theorist Lawrence Venuti gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000. The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while engaging with the main trends in research and commentary. The issues covered include basic concepts like equivalence, retranslation, and reader



reception; sociological topics like the impact of translations in the academy and the global cultural economy; and philosophical problems such as the translator's unconscious and translation ethics.Every essay presents case studies tha