Rethinking Translation: Discourse, Subjectivity, Ideology

ISBN-13: 9781138361874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 248 str.

Lawrence Venuti

Opis

Originally published in 1992 Rethinking Translation makes the translator’s activity more visible through critical theory. It examines the selection of the foreign text and the implementation of translation strategies; the reception of  translated text, and the theories of translation offered by philosophers, critics and translators.

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors  Acknowledgements  Introduction  1. Translating Origins: Psychoanalysis and Philosophy  2. Translation as Simulacrum  3. Gender and the Metaphorics of Translation  4. Translation as (Sub) Version: On Translating Infante’s Inferno  5. Merill’s Valéry: An Erotics of Translation  6. Mistranslation, Missed Translation: Hélène Cixous’ Vivre L’Orange  7. Translation and the Postcolonial Experience: The Francophone North African Text  8. Translation and Cultural Hegemony: The Case of French-Arabic Translation  9. The Language of Cultural Difference: Figures of Alterity in Canadian Translation  10. Colors in Translation: Baudelaire and Rimbaud  11. I.U. Tarchetti’s Politics of Translation; or a Plagiarism of Mary Shelley  Index

O autorze

Lawrence Venuti