Metatranslation: Essays on Translation and Translation Studies

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Metatranslation presents a selection of 14 key essays by leading theorist, Theo Hermans, covering a span of almost 40 years. The essays trace Hermans’ work and demonstrate how translation studies has evolved from the 1980s into the much more diverse and self-reflexive discipline it is today. The book is divided into three main sections: the first section explores the status and central concerns of translation studies, including the growing interest in sociological, ideological and ethical approaches to translation; the second section investigates the key concepts of translation norms and of the translator’s presence, or positioning, in translated texts; the historical essays in the final section are concerned with both modern and early modern discourses on translation and with the use of translation as an instrument of war and propaganda. This synthesis of the work of a highly influential pioneer in translation studies is essential reading for researchers, scholars and advanced students of translation studies, intercultural studies and comparative literature. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Sources and Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 Approaches Chapter 1 Translation’s Other [1996] Chapter 2 Paradoxes and Aporias in Translation and Translation Studies [2002] Chapter 3 Translation, Irritation and Resonance [2007] Chapter 4 What is Translation? [2013] Chapter 5 Untranslatability, Entanglement and Understanding [2019] Part 2 Concepts Chapter 6 Translational Norms and Correct Translations [1991] Chapter 7 Translation and Normativity [1998] Chapter 8 The Translator’s Voice in Translated Narrative [1996] Chapter 9 The Translator as Evaluator [2010] Chapter 10 Positioning Translators: Voices, Views and Values in Translation [2014] Part 3 Histories Chapter 11 Images of Translation: Metaphor and Imagery in the Renaissance Discourse on Translation [1985] Chapter 12 The Task of the Translator in the European Renaissance: Explorations in a Discursive Field [1997] Chapter 13 Miracles in Translation: Justus Lipsius, Our Lady of Halle and Two Dutch Translations [2015] Chapter 14 Schleiermacher [2019] Index