The scandals of translation : towards an ethics of difference / Lawrence Venuti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Venuti, Lawrence, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--Moral and ethical aspects.

Translating and interpreting.

Intercultural communication.

Physical Description:

1 recurso en linea (219 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Translation is stigmatized as a form of writing, discouraged by copyright law, deprecated by the academy, exploited by publishers and corporations, governments and religious organizations.Lawrence Venuti exposes what he refers to as the 'scandals of translation' by looking at the relationship between translation and those bodies - corporations, governments, religious organizations, publishers - who need the work of the translator yet marginalize it when it threatens their cultural values.Venuti illustrates his arguments with a wealth of translations from The Bible, the works of Homer,

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Heterogeneity; Authorship; Copyright; The formation of cultural identities; The pedagogy of literature; Philosophy; The bestseller; Globalization; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-205) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-74063-8

1-134-74064-6

1-280-18238-5

0-203-04787-7

9780203047873

OCLC:

277619123