
Western Translation Theory from Herodotus to Nietzsche
From Herodotus to Nietzsche
- 338 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Douglas Robinson offers the most comprehensive collection of translation theory readings available to date, from the Histories of Herodotus in the mid-fifth century before our era to the end of the nineteenth century. The result is a startling panoply of thinking about translation across the centuries, covering such topics as the best type of translator, problems of translating sacred texts, translation and language teaching, translation as rhetoric, translation and empire, and translation and gender.
This pioneering anthology contains 124 texts by 90 authors, 9 of them women. Sixteen texts by 4 authors appear here for the first time in English translation; 17 texts by 9 authors appear in completely new translations. Every entry is provided with a bibliographical headnote and footnotes.
Intended for classroom use in History of Translation Theory, History of Rhetoric or History of Western Thought courses, this anthology will also prove useful to scholars of translation and those interested in the intellectual history of the West.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Editor’s Preface
- Herodotus
- Anonymous (‘Aristeas’)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Philo judaeus
- Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
- Paul of Tarsus
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus)
- Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus)
- Aulus Gellius
- Epiphanius of Constantia (Salamis)
- Jerome (Eusebius Hieronymus)
- Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus)
- C. Chirius Fortunatianus
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
- Gregory the Great
- John Scotus Eriugena
- King Alfred
- Aelfric
- Notker the German
- Burgundio of Pisa
- Anonymous
- Thomas Aquinas
- Roger Bacon
- Jean de Meun
- Dante Alighieri
- Anonymous
- Richard Rolle
- John of Trevisa
- Coluccio Salutati
- Anonymous (John Purvey?)
- Leonardo Bruni
- King Duarte
- William Caxton
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Thomas More
- Marten Luther
- William Tyndale
- Juan Luis Vives
- Etienne Dolet
- Elifobeth Tudor
- Mikael Agricola
- Joachim du Bellay
- Anna Cooke
- Jacques Peletier
- Roger Ascham
- Etienne Pasquier
- Margaret Tyler
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Gregory Martin
- William Fulke
- John Florio
- George Chapman
- Miles Smith
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Jean Chapelain
- Joseph Webbe
- Suzanne du Vegerre
- John Denham
- Nicolas Perrot d’Ablancourt
- Abraham Cowley
- Pierre Daniel Huet
- Katherine Philips
- John Dryden
- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon
- Apha Behn
- Gottfried wilhelm Leibniz
- Anne Dacier
- Joseph Addison
- Alexander Pope
- Charles Batteux
- Elizabeth Carter
- Samuel Johnson
- Johann Gottfried von Herder
- Alexander Fraser Tytler
- Novalis (Friedrich Leopold, Baron von Hardenberg)
- August Wilhelm von Schlegel
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Baronne de Staül-Holstein
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Edward FitzGerald
- Matthew Arnold
- Francis W. Newman
- Richard F. Burton
- Robert Browning
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Biographies
- Further Reading
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Title Index