1st Edition

The Conference of the Tongues

By Theo Hermans Copyright 2007
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

The Conference of the Tongues offers a series of startling reflections on fundamental questions of translation. It throws new light on familiar problems and opens up some radically different avenues of thought. It engages with value conflicts in translation and the social accountability of translators, and turns the old issue of equivalence inside out. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary and... Read more

Preface

 

1. The End

Words from above

Vienna's treaties

Versions of authority

Authentication in a minor key

 

2. Before the End

Hostile dynasties

Self-reference

Metatranslation

 

3. Irony's Echo

Translation, quotation, demonstration

Reported speech

Echoic translation

 

4. Real Presence

Uccello's predella

Transubstantiation

Figuration

Conversion

 

5. Connecting Systems

System

Form

Training

Observation

History

 

6. The Thickness of Translation Studies

Domestic representations

The thick of it

Understood?

Biography

Theo Hermans is Professor of Dutch and Comparative Literature and Director of the Centre for Intercultural Studies at University College London. A founding member of the Translation Research Summer School and the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies, he also edits the series Translation Theories Explored for St Jerome Publishing. He is the author of several books, including Translation in Systems and The Structure of Modernist Poetry, and editor of Translating Others, Crosscultural Transgressions and The Manipulation of Literature.