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  • English Aeneid

    Translations of Virgil 1555-1646

    by Sheldon Brammall ...
    Series series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Literary Translation

    $92.19 USD

  • Multilingual Texts and Practices in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Peter Auger, Sheldon Brammall ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
    This collection offers a cross-disciplinary exploration of the ways in which multilingual practices were embedded in early modern European literary culture, opening up a dynamic dialogue between contemporary multilingual practices and scholarly work on early modern history and literature.The nine chapters draw on translation studies, literary history, transnational literatures, and contemporary ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Dictionary of Untranslatables

    A Philosophical Lexicon

    Edited by Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, Michael Wood ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters.This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy—or any—translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • The Art of Conversation

    by Peter Burke ...
    The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses their concept while reserving the right to qualify their theories where the historical record makes this seem appropriate. Like the sociolinguists, Burke ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Translation Changes Everything

    Theory and Practice

    by Lawrence Venuti ...
    In Translation Changes Everything leading theorist Lawrence Venuti gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000.The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while engaging with the main trends in research and commentary. The issues covered include basic concepts like equivalence, retranslation, and reader reception; sociological topics like the impact of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Theory of the Novel

    by Guido Mazzoni ...
    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    The novel is the most important form of Western art. It aims to represent the totality of life; it is the flagship that literature sends out against the systematic thought of science and philosophy. Indebted to Lukács and Bakhtin, to Auerbach and Ian Watt, Guido Mazzoni’s Theory of the Novel breaks new ground, building a historical understanding of how the novel became the modern book of life: one ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind

    Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe

    by Roger Chartier ...
    In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author’s or translator’s manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Creation and Anarchy

    The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism

    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche, or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is always the first principle that governs and decrees. This is as true for theology, where God not only creates the world but governs and continues to ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Trans Historical

    Gender Plurality before the Modern

    Edited by Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, Anna Klosowska ...
    Trans Historical explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, across a broad geographic range, from Spain to Poland and Byzantium to Boston.Refuting arguments that transgender people, experiences, and identities were non-existent or even impossible prior to the twentieth century, this volume focuses on archives ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Translation Studies

    by Susan Bassnett ...
    Series series New Accents
    At a time when millions travel around the planet – some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile – translation of the written and spoken word is of ever increasing importance. This guide presents readers with an accessible and engaging introduction to the valuable position translation holds within literature and society.Leading translation theorist Susan Bassnett traces the history of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Translator's Invisibility

    A History of Translation

    by Lawrence Venuti ...
    Series series Routledge Translation Classics
    Since publication over twenty years ago, The Translator’s Invisibility has provoked debate and controversy within the field of translation and become a classic text. Providing a fascinating account of the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day, Venuti shows how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the canon of foreign literatures in English ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Ideologies of Language

    Edited by John E. Joseph, Talbot J. Taylor ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
    Is the study of language ideologically neutral? If so, is this study objective and autonomous?One of the most cherished assumptions of modern academic linguistics is that the study of language is, or should be, ideologically neutral. This professed ideological neutrality goes hand-in-hand with claims of scientific objectivity and explanatory autonomy. Ideologies of Language counters these claims ... Read more

    $65.99 USD