Translation/History/Culture: A Sourcebook / Edition 1

by André Lefevere

Overview

The most important and productive statements on the translation of literature from Roman times to the 1920s 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 and cultures.
^Translation/History/Culture creates a framework for further study of the history of translation in the West by tracing European historical thought about translation, and discussing the topicality of many of the texts included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138006645
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/10/2014
Series:	Translation Studies
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The role of ideology in the shaping of a translation 2. The power of patronage 3.Poetics 4.Universe of discourse 5.Translation, the development of language and education 6. The technique of translating 7. Central texts and central cultures 8. Longer statements Bibliographical references Index