Translating Interpreting category: 690 books
Translation and the Intersection of Texts, Contexts and Politics
Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
This book analyzes the impact of historical, political and sociocultural contexts on the reading, rewriting and translating of texts. The authors base their arguments on their experiences of translating or researching different text types, taking in fiction, short stories, memoirs, religious texts,...
Translating Women
Different Voices and New Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book focuses on women and translation in cultures 'across other horizons' well beyond the European or Anglo-American centres. Drawing on transnational feminist connections, its editors have assembled work from four continents and included articles from Morocco, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Turkey, China,...
by Dr. Alexandra Berlina
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Winner of the Anna Balakian Prize 2016
Is poetry lost in translation, or is it perhaps the other way around? Is it found? Gained? Won? What happens when a poet decides to give his favorite Russian poems a new life in English? Are the new texts shadows, twins or doppelgangers of their originals-or...
Translating Values
Evaluative Concepts in Translation
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This collection explores the central importance of values and evaluative concepts in cross-cultural translational encounters. Written by a group of international scholars from a diverse range of linguistic and cultural backgrounds, the chapters in this book consider what it means to translate cultures...
Translating Foreign Otherness
Cross-Cultural Anxiety in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This book explores the deep-rooted anxiety about foreign otherness manifest through translation in modern China in its endeavours to engage in cross-cultural exchanges. It offers to theorize and contextualize a related range of issues concerning translation practice in response to foreign otherness....
Translating War
Literature and Memory in France and Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
This book examines the role played by the international circulation of literature in constructing cultural memories of the Second World War. War writing has rarely been read from the point of view of translation even though war is by definition a multilingual event, and knowledge of the Second World...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
For readers in the English-speaking world, almost all Holocaust writing is translated writing. Translation is indispensable for our understanding of the Holocaust because there is a need to tell others what happened in a way that makes events and experiences accessible – if not, perhaps, comprehensible...
Translating the Poetry of the Holocaust
Translation, Style and the Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2015
Taking a cognitive approach, this book asks what poetry, and in particular Holocaust poetry, does to the reader - and to what extent the translation of this poetry can have the same effects. It is informed by current theoretical discussion and features many practical examples.
Holocaust poetry...
Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages
Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
This book provides an innovative look at the reception of Frantz Fanon’s texts, investigating how, when, where and why these—especially his seminal Les Damnés de la Terre (1961) —were first translated and read. Building on renewed interest in the author’s works in both postcolonial studies...
En otras palabras
Perfeccionamiento del español por medio de la traducción, segunda edición
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Students of advanced Spanish share a desire to use and understand the language, even as their backgrounds and goals for the language may vary widely. En otras palabras provides advanced learners of Spanish with hands-on manipulation of grammatical, lexical, and cultural detail through the practice of...
The Translatability of the Religious Dimension in Shakespeare from Page to Stage, from West to East
With Reference to The Merchant of Venice in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This interdisciplinary study traverses the disciplines of translation studies, hermeneutics, theater studies, and sociology. Under the "power turn" or "political turn" in translation studies, the omission and untranslatability of religious material are often seen as the product...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Written by translation practitioners, teachers and researchers, this edited volume is a much-needed contribution to the under-researched area of community translation. Its chapters outline the specific nature and challenges of community translation (e.g. language policies, language variation within...
Translating across Sensory and Linguistic Borders
Intersemiotic Journeys between Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2018
This book analyses intersemiotic translation, where the translator works across sign systems and cultural boundaries. Challenging Roman Jakobson’s seminal definitions, it examines how a poem may be expressed as dance, a short story as an olfactory experience, or a film as a painting. This emergent...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2019
Environmental translation studies has gained momentum in recent years as a new area of research underscored by the need to communicate environmental concerns and studies across cultures. The dissemination of translated materials on environmental protection and sustainable development has played an...