Craft of Translation

John Biguenet, Rainer Schulte

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Chicago University Press
15 August 1989

Translation & interpretation; Languages & ESL; Translation; Translation

Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing

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Written by some of the most distinguished literary translators working in English today, these essays offer new and uncommon insights into the understanding and craft of translation. The contributors not only describe the complexity of translating literature but also suggest the implications of the act of translation for critics, scholars, teachers, and students. The demands of translation, according to these writers, require both comprehensive scholarship in preparing to translate a text and broad creativity in recreating the text in a new language. Translation, thus, becomes a model for the most exacting reading and the most serious scholarship.

Some of the contributors lay bare the rigorous methods of literary translation in comparisons of various translations of the same piece; some discuss the problems of translating a specific passage; others speak about the lessons learned over the course of a career in translation. As these essays make clear, translators work in the space between languages and, in so doing, provide insights into the ways in which a culture makes the world verbal. Exemplary readers both of authors and of their individual works, the translators represented in this collection demonstrate that the methodologies derived from the art and craft of translation can serve as a model to revitalize the interpretation and understanding of literary works.

Readers will find the opportunity to look over the shoulders of the translators gathered together in this volume an exciting and surprising experience. The act of translation emerges both as a powerful integration of linguistic, semantic, cultural, and historical thinking and as a valuable commentary on how we communicate both within a culture and from one culture to another.

Edited by: John Biguenet, Rainer Schulte
Imprint: Chicago University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 22mm, Width: 14mm, Spine: 1mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9780226048697
ISBN 10: 0226048691
Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 15 August 1989
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active