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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lefevere, André.

Series:

Translation studies (London, England)

Translation studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--History.

Translating and interpreting.

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

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.

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

ISBN:

1-134-90114-3

1-134-90115-1

1-280-32118-0

0-203-41760-7

0-203-31039-X

9780203417607

OCLC:

567853651