In today's ever-changing climate of disintegration and recombination, translation has become one of the essential metaphors, if not the metaphor, of our globalized world. Translation and Metaphor is an attempt to draw a comprehensive map of these new overlapping theoretical territories and the many cross-disciplinary movements they imply. In five chapters, this book examines:

. The main metaphor theories developed in the West.

. The way the notion of metaphor relates to the concept of translation.

. Different theoretical perspectives on...