The Routledge Handbook of Translation History

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The Routledge Handbook of Translation History presents the first comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of this multi-faceted disciplinary area and serves both as an introduction to carrying out research into translation and interpreting history and as a key point of reference for some of its main theoretical and methodological issues, interdisciplinary approaches, and research themes. The Handbook brings together 30 eminent international scholars from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, offering examples of the most innovative research while representing a wide range of approaches, themes, and cultural contexts. The Handbook is divided into four sections: the first looks at some key methodological and theoretical approaches; the second examines some of the key research areas that have developed an interdisciplinary dialogue with translation history; the third looks at translation history from the perspective of specific cultural and religious perspectives; and the fourth offers a selection of case studies on some of the key topics to have emerged in translation and interpreting history over the past 20 years. This Handbook is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of translation and interpreting history, translation theory, and related areas. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures and tables Acknowledgements List of contributors Introduction: The historiography of translation and interpreting Part I Methods and Theories Chapter 1 The history of Translation Studies as a discipline Chapter 2 Methodological issues related to the history of interpreting Chapter 3 The use of corpora and other electronic tools in historical research on translation Chapter 4 Narratology and narrative theory Chapter 5 National histories of translation Chapter 6 Conceptual tools in translation history Chapter 7 A science of the times? Descriptive Translation Studies and history Chapter 8 Pierre Bourdieu Part II Interdisciplinary Approaches Chapter 9 Comparative literature and translation history Chapter 10 The translation state: Linguistic governmentality as language politics in early modern France Chapter 11 History of philosophy and translation Chapter 12 Historical misinterpretation of signed language interpreting Chapter 13 Book history and translation history Chapter 14 The philosophy of history and translation Part III Cultures and Religions Chapter 15 In Search of Translation: Why was hon’yaku not the term of choice in premodern Japan? Chapter 16 The task of Jewish translation revisited Chapter 17 Translation in Christian tradition Chapter 18 Translation, discursive violence, and Aryanism in early Indian nationalism Chapter 19 Universal wisdom, Islamic law: Translation discourse in classical Arabic Chapter 20 The development of interpretation in the context of Estonia’s evolving statehood Chapter 21 Literary translation and nation-building in post-independence Tanzania Part IV Key Themes Chapter 22 Feminists of All Languages Unite: Translation as Political Practice in the 1970s or a Historical View of Feminist Translation Chapter 23 Translating the classics Chapter 24 Soldiers, interpreters, fixers, and spies: A Finnish military interpreter embodying the Finnish–German brotherhood-in-arms in 1941–1944 Chapter 25 Translation and transnational history in the eighteenth century Chapter 26 Travel writing and translation history Chapter 27 Researching the history of audiovisual translation Chapter 28 The International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation: Translation policies in the interwar period (1925–1946) Chapter 29 Translation under Fascism and Nazism Chapter 30 Literary translation as an instrument of censorship in Soviet Russia: The institutionalization of the Soviet translator Index