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The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference

By Lawrence Venuti

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1998
ISBN
0415169291, 9780415169295
LCC
P306.2 .V45 1998
Open Library ID
OL350189M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
34 MB (36156447 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
109\109
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Translation is stigmatized as a form of writing, discouraged by copyright law, deprecated by the academy, exploited by publishers and corporations, governments and religious organizations.Lawrence Venuti exposes what he refers to as the 'scandals of translation' by looking at the relationship between translation and those bodies - corporations, governments, religious organizations, publishers - who need the work of the translator yet marginalize it when it threatens their cultural values.Venuti illustrates his arguments with a wealth of translations from The Bible, the works of Homer, Plato and Wittgenstein, Japanese and West African novels, advertisements and business journalism.

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