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"An excellent introductory volume for teachers and students alike.... The effectiveness of Lefevere's volume is further underscored by his successful effort to focus his study across cultures, rather than favoring any specific language or genre". Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography
Translating Literature
by Lefevere, AndreFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1992-09-01
Publisher(s): Modern Language Assn of Amer
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Summary
Designed for the growing number of courses on literary translation, Translating Literature discusses the process and the product of literary translation, incorporating both practical advice for translators and theoretical discussion on the role translations play in the evolution and interpretation of literatures. Exercises and examples highlight problems in translation. Lefevere shows that translations, like history, criticism, and anthologization, are part of a tradition of "rewriting" and are instrumental in the development and the teaching of literatures. Translating Literature concludes with an exhaustive bibliography of translation studies.
Table of Contents
| Preface for the Instructor | p. 1 |
| Preface for the Student | p. 3 |
| Translation Studies | p. 5 |
| Language | p. 15 |
| Alliteration | p. 20 |
| Allusion | p. 22 |
| Foreign Words | p. 29 |
| Genre | p. 31 |
| Grammatical Norms | p. 35 |
| Metaphor | p. 37 |
| Names | p. 39 |
| Neologisms | p. 41 |
| Off-Rhyme | p. 42 |
| Parody | p. 44 |
| Poetic Diction | p. 49 |
| Pun | p. 51 |
| Register | p. 58 |
| Rhyme and Meter | p. 70 |
| Sound and Nonsense | p. 75 |
| Syntax | p. 78 |
| Typography | p. 80 |
| Word and Thing | p. 82 |
| Text | p. 85 |
| From Passage to Text | p. 86 |
| The Four Levels of Translation | p. 86 |
| Ideology, Poetics, Universe of Discourse | p. 87 |
| Text: Catullus 32 | p. 89 |
| Text and Ideology | p. 90 |
| Text and Poetics | p. 91 |
| The Cultural Status of the Text and the Passage of Time | p. 92 |
| Translation Strategies | p. 94 |
| The Weight of Traditional Interpretations of Writers and Their Texts | p. 95 |
| Translation Tactics: The Illocutionary Level | p. 97 |
| Context: The Function of Translation in a Culture | p. 113 |
| From Text to Context: Categories for Further Analysis | p. 114 |
| Audience | p. 115 |
| Authority | p. 116 |
| Image: Culture | p. 125 |
| Literary Translation and Beyond | p. 133 |
| Topics for Classroom Teaching and Research | p. 141 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 147 |
| Index | p. 163 |
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