Spanning the centuries, from the seventeenth to the twentieth, and ranging across cultures, from England to Mexico, this collection gathers together important statements on the function and feasibility of literary translation. The essays provide an overview of the historical evolution in thinking about translation and offer strong individual opinions by prominent contemporary theorists.

Most of the twenty-one pieces appear in translation, some here in English for the first time and many difficult to find elsewhere. Selections include writings by Scheiermacher, Nietzsche, Ortega, Benjamin, Pound, Jakobson, Paz, Riffaterre, Derrida, and others.

A fine companion to The Craft of Translation, this volume will be a valuable resource for all those who translate, those who teach translation theory and practice, and those interested in questions of language philosophy and literary theory.

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Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Year

2017

Print ISBN

9780226048710, 9780226048703

eBook ISBN

9780226184821

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Translating & Interpreting

Cover
Copyright
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
1. Hugo Friedrich: On The Art of Translation
2. John Dryden: On Translation
3. Arthur Schopenhauer: On Language and Words
4. Friedrich Schleiermacher: From On the Different Methods of Translating
5. Wilhelm Von Humboldt: From Introduction to His Translation of Agamemnon
6. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Translations
7. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Preface to The Early Italian Poets
8. Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Problem of Translation
9. Walter Benjamin: The Task of the Translator
10. Ezra Pound: Guido’s Relations
11. José Ortega Y Gasset: The Misery and the Splendor of Translation
12. Paul Valéry: Variations on the Eclogues
13. Vladimir Nabokov: Problems of Translation: Onegin in English
14. Roman Jakobson: On Linguistic Aspects of Translation
15. Octavio Paz: Translation: Literature and Letters
16. Peter Szondi: The Poetry of Constancy: Paul Celan’s Translation of Shakespeare’s Sonnet
17. Yves Bonnefoy: Translating Poetry
18. Henry Schogt: Semantic Theory and Translation Theory
19. Michael Riffaterre: Transposing Presuppositions on the Semiotics of Literary Translation
20. Jacques Derrida: From Des Tours de Babel
21. Hans Erich Nossack: Translating and Being Translated
Notes
Biographies of the Essayists
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