An edition of The translator's turn (1991)

The translator's turn

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An edition of The translator's turn (1991)

The translator's turn

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Despite landmark works in translation studies such as George Steiner's After Babel and Eugene Nida's The Theory and Practice of Translation, most of what passes as con-temporary "theory" on the subject has been content to remain largely within the realm of the anecdotal. Not so Douglas Robinson's ambitious book, which, despite its author's protests to the contrary, makes a bid to displace (the deconstructive term is apposite here) a gamut of earlier cogitations on the subject, reaching all the way back to Cicero, Augustine, and Jerome. Robinson himself sums up the aim of his project in this way: "I want to displace the entire rhetoric and ideology of mainstream translation theory, which ... is medieval and ecclesiastical in origin, authoritarian in intent, and denaturing and mystificatory in effect." -- from http://www.jstor.org (Sep. 12, 2014).

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Language
English
Pages
318

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The translator's turn
1991, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-307) and index.

Published in
Baltimore
Series
Parallax : re-visions of culture and society, Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
418/.02
Library of Congress
P306 .R63 1990, P306.R63 1990

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 318 p. ;
Number of pages
318

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1852967M
Internet Archive
translatorsturn0000robi
ISBN 10
0801840465, 0801840473
LCCN
90004629
OCLC/WorldCat
21524103
LibraryThing
1287690
Goodreads
3809914
373543

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2638608W

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