Western Translation Theory from Herodotus to Nietzsche: From Herodotus to Nietzsche

ISBN-13: 9781900650373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 338 str.

Shenzhen) Robinson Douglas (Chinese University of Hong Kong

Opis

Offers a comprehensive collection of translation theory readings, from the Histories of Herodotus in the mid-fifth century before our era to the end of the nineteenth century. This book covers such topics as the best type of translator, problems of translating sacred texts, translation and language teaching, and translation as rhetoric.

O autorze

Douglas Robinson is associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is author of The Translator's Turn, Translation and Taboo, What Is Translation? and Translation and Empire. A freelance translator of literary, scholarly, and technical texts between Finnish and English since 1975, he was formerly associate professor of Finnish ­English translation theory and practice at the University of Tampere, Finland, and is past president of the Finnish­American Translators Association.