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  • A Zombie Theory of Translation

    Or, What is a 'Revenant' Translation?

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Series series Elements in Translation and Interpreting
    In 'Des Tours de Babel' Jacques Derrida brilliantly deconstructs Benjamin's 1923 essay, but in 'What is a 'Relevant' Translation?' his wording suggestively hints at the possibility that Benjamin sees the source text dying and returning to life as the translation, in which only the body (not the mind, not the spirit, not the sense) of the source text survives. Smash these two brilliant theorists' ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Western Translation Theory from Herodotus to Nietzsche

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Western Translation Theory from Herodotus to Nietzsche offers the most comprehensive collection of translation theory readings available to date, from the Histories of Herodotus in the mid-5th century to the end of the 19th century. This work provides a rich panoply of thinking about translation across the centuries, covering such topics as the best type of translator, problems of translating ... Read more

    $200.00 USD

  • Translation (Theory) as an Assemblage

    Seven Rhizomatic Plateaus

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This experimental book on translation borrows its title and methodology from the introduction to Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. As they theorize it, an assemblage (French agencement) works through a complex socio-material network characterized by fluidity, exchangeability, and connectivity. They contrast the assemblage with what they call the “root-tree,” which is rooted in stable ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Priming Translation

    Cognitive, Affective, and Social Factors

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    This innovative volume builds on Michael S. Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory toward radically expanding the theoretical and methodological scope of translational priming research.Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory, based on empirical studies carried out with split-brain patients, argues for the Left-Brain Interpreter (LBI), a module in the brain’s left hemisphere that seeks to make sense of their world ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Deep Ecology of Rhetoric in Mencius and Aristotle

    A Somatic Guide

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Discusses philosophers Mencius and Aristotle as socio-ecological thinkers.Mencius (385–303/302 BCE) and Aristotle (384–322 BCE) were contemporaries, but are often understood to represent opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum. Mencius is associated with the ecological, emergent, flowing, and connected; Artistotle with the rational, static, abstract, and binary. Douglas Robinson argues that in ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Becoming a Translator

    An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Fusing theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a Translator is the essential resource for novice and practicing translators. The book explains how the market works, helps translators learn how to translate faster and more accurately, as well as providing invaluable advice and tips about how to deal with potential problems, such as stress.The fourth ... Read more

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  • The Dao of Translation

    An East-West Dialogue

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    The Dao of Translation sets up an East-West dialogue on the nature of language and translation, and specifically on the "unknown forces" that shape the act of translation. To that end it mobilizes two radically different readings of the Daodejing (formerly romanized as the Tao Te Ching): the traditional "mystical" reading according to which the Dao is a mysterious force that cannot be known, and a ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Translation and Empire

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Series series Translation Theories Explored
    Arising from cultural anthropology in the late 1980s and early 1990s, postcolonial translation theory is based on the observation that translation has often served as an important channel of empire. Douglas Robinson begins with a general presentation of postcolonial theory, examines current theories of the power differentials that control what gets translated and how, and traces the historical ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Feeling Extended

    Sociality as Extended Body-Becoming-Mind

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    A new view of the extended mind thesis argues that a stark binary opposition between really extending and seeming to extend oversimplifies the issue.The extended-mind thesis (EMT), usually attributed to Andy Clark and David Chalmers, proposes that in specific kinds of mind-body-world interaction there emerges an extended cognitive system incorporating such extracranial supports as pencils, papers, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Introducing Performative Pragmatics

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    This user-friendly introduction to a new ‘performative’ methodology in linguistic pragmatics breaks away from the traditional approach which understands language as a machine. Drawing on a wide spectrum of research and theory from the past thirty years in particular, Douglas Robinson presents a combination of ‘action-oriented approaches’ from sources such as J.L. Austin, H. Paul Grice, Harold ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Translation as a Form

    A Centennial Commentary on Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator”

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    This is a book-length commentary on Walter Benjamin’s 1923 essay "Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers," best known in English under the title "The Task of the Translator." Benjamin’s essay is at once an immensely attractive work for top-flight theorists of translation and comparative literature and a frustratingly cryptic work that cries out for commentary. Almost every one of the claims he makes in it ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Lessons Experimental Translators Can Learn from Finnegans Wake

    Translouting that Gaswind into Turfish

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Inspiring translators by making specific experimental writing strategies available to them, this book reimagines experimental translation through close readings of Finnegans Wake.Robinson’s engagement with translational aspects of Finnegans Wake provides rich and useful insights into experimental translation that encourage new approaches to translation theory and practice. The author analyses ... Read more

    $33.99 USD