Translation
A Very Short Introduction
$28.74
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
9 August 2016
Summary
Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn’t only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no world religions, and our literatures, our cultures, and our languages would be unrecognisable. In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds gives an authoritative and thought-provoking account of the field, from ancient Akkadian to World English, from St Jerome to Google Translate. He shows how translation…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198712114 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198712111 |
| Author: | Matthew Reynolds |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 9 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 126g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 110mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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Matthew Reynolds tackles the topic with aplomb.
a well-rounded and thought-provoking account of the concept of translation * Hanan Ben Nafa, Babel *Matthew Reynolds tackles the topic with aplomb. * ANZ LitLovers *
About The Author
Matthew Reynolds
Matthew Reynolds is The Times Lecturer in English at Oxford University and a Tutorial Fellow of St Anne’s College. He is the author of The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue (OUP, 2011). His previous work on translation includes the Penguin anthology Dante in English (Penguin, 2005) which he co-authored with Eric Griffiths, the chapter on ‘Principles and Norms of Translation’ in vol. 4 of the Oxford History of Literary Translation in English (OUP, 2006), and a series of essays in the London Review of Books. He chairs the annual Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.
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