The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation

ISBN-13: 9780198183594 / Twarda / 2000 / 680 str.

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Opis

This book, written by a team of experts from many countries, provides a comprehensive account of the ways in which translation has brought the major literatures of the world into English-speaking culture. Part I discusses theoretical issues and gives an overview of the history of translation into English. Part II, the bulk of the work, arranged by language of origin, offers critical discussions, with bibliographies, of the translation history of specific texts (e.g. the Koran, the Kalevala), authors (e.g. Lucretius, Dostoevsky), genres (e.g. Chinese poetry, twentieth-century Italian prose) and national literatures (e.g. Hungarian, Afrikaans).

Recenzje

The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation is an excellent book, being the result of the collaborative efforts of 113 experts, mostly from British universities, under the editorial guidance of Peter France ... A fascinating and very comprehensive, panoramic view of its subject as well as being very readable.

O autorze

Peter France is editor of The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French (OUP 1992), and himself a distinguished translator from Russian and French