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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821322603321

Titolo

Translation, history, culture : a sourcebook / / edited by Andre Lefevere

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992

ISBN

1-134-90114-3

1-134-90115-1

1-280-32118-0

0-203-41760-7

0-203-31039-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Collana

Translation studies

Altri autori (Persone)

LefevereAndre

Disciplina

418.02

Soggetti

Translating and interpreting - History

Language and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A collection of texts in English with commentary of writings about translation originally written in English, French, German, and Latin between the birth of Cicero in 106 B.C. and the death in 1931 of Ulrich von Willamowitz-Mollendorff.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-173) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; General editors' preface; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The role of ideology in the shaping of a translation; The power of patronage; Poetics; Universe of Discourse; Translation, the development of language and education; The technique of translating; Central texts and central cultures; Longer statements; Bibliographical references; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The most important and productive statements on the translation of literature from Roman times to the 1920's are collected in this book. Arranged thematically around the main topics which recur over the centuries - power, poetics, universe of discourse, language, education - it contains texts previously unavailable in English, and translated here for the first time from classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Latin, from French and from German. As the first survey of its kind in both scope and selection it argues that translation commands a central position in the shaping of European literatures