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Rethinking Translation: Discourse, Subjectivity, Ideology book cover

1st Edition

Rethinking Translation Discourse, Subjectivity, Ideology

Edited By Lawrence Venuti Copyright 1992
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1992 Rethinking Translation makes the translator’s activity more visible by using critical theory. It examines the selection of the foreign text and the implementation of translation strategies; the reception of the translated text, and the theories of translation offered by philosophers, critics and translators themselves. The book constitutes a rethinking that is both... Read more

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction, Lawrence Venuti

1. Translating Origins: Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, Andrew Benjamin

2. Translation as Simulacrum, John Johnston

3. Gender and the Metaphorics of Translation, Lori Chamberlain

4. Translation as (Sub) Version: On Translating Infante’s Inferno, Suzanne Jill Levine

5. Merill’s Valéry: An Erotics of Translation, Jeffrey Mehlman

6. Mistranslation, Missed Translation: Hélène Cixous’ Vivre L’Orange, Sharon Willis

7. Translation and the Postcolonial Experience: The Francophone North African Text, Samia Mehrez

8. Translation and Cultural Hegemony: The Case of French-Arabic Translation, Richard Jacquemond

9. The Language of Cultural Difference: Figures of Alterity in Canadian Translation, Sherry Simon

10. Colors in Translation: Baudelaire and Rimbaud, Tom Conley

11. I.U. Tarchetti’s Politics of Translation; or a Plagiarism of Mary Shelley, Lawrence Venuti

Index

Biography

Lawrence Venuti

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