Where Theory and Practice Meet Understanding Translation Through Translation

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2016 | 655 Pages | ISBN: 144389088X | PDF | 5 MB
Where Theory and Practice Meet is a collection of nineteen papers in translation studies. Unlike many similar books published in recent decades, which are mostly non-translation-oriented, veering to issues with little or no relevance to translation, this book focuses on the translation process, on theory formulation with reference to actual translation, on getting to grips with translation problems, and on explaining translation in language which can be understood by the general reader. Perceptive and wide-ranging, the book covers language pairs that include Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, and Classical Greek, and discusses, among other things, translations of Dantes La Divina Commedia; translations of Shakespeares Hamlet; Goethes Prometheus as a case of untranslatability; the challenge of translating Garcilaso de la Vegas Primera gloga into Chinese; John Minfords translation of martial arts fiction; and Lin Shus translation of Alexandre Dumass La Dame aux camlias.