Translating Literature : Practice and Theory in a Comparative Literature Context
2: Modern Language Association of America, 1994. Soft Cover. Text in English. 165 pp. 2nd printing.
Designed for the growing number of courses on literary translation, Translating Literahure discusses the process and the product of literary translation, incorporating practical advice for translators and theoretical discussion of the role translations play in the evolution and interpretations of literatures. Exercises and examples highlight problems in translation. Lefevere shows that translations, like history, criticism, and anthologization, are part of a tradition of "rewriting" and are instrumental in the development and the teaching of literatures. Translafing Literature concludes with an extensive bibliography of translation studies. Fine. Item #3725
ISBN: 0873523946
Price: $30.00