Notes on contributors susan bassnett is provicechancellor at the university of warwick, uk, and professor in the centre for translation and comparative cultural studies which she founded in the 1980s. Pdf the study of susan bassnetts theory in translation. In his theory, he began to throw away the simply literal translation and took the different social background into consideration. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. In the late 1970s a new academic discipline was born. We could not read literature in translation, it was argued, without asking ourselves if linguistic and cultural phenomena really were translatable and exploring in some depth the concept of equivalence. This 4th edition remains essential reading for anyone new to the field and has been updated to include the cultural turn in translation studies, translation and power, postcolonial translation, skopos theory, translation and new technology, the translational turn, translation studies in the chinese and indian contexts, and translating for the theatre. Article pdf available in ilha do desterro april 2008 with 6,831 reads. Translation 1st edition susan bassnett routledge book.
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The cultural turn was invented by myself and andre lefevere back in the early 1990s. Translation studies is an academic interdiscipline dealing with the systematic study of the theory, description and application of translation, interpreting, and localization. Translation studies, susan bassnett, third edition, routledge, taylor and francis group. Susan bassnett,university of warwick,uk michael cronins book is a valuable reference point in the current debate on the role of translation and translation studies. Translation studies by susan bassnett, hardcover barnes. The book attempts to introduce the reader very quickly into the scope of depth. Culture coauthored by susan bassnett and andre lefevereformally put forward the idea of culture turn, which aroused many scholars attention. The translation studies reader the translation studies reader is the definitive reader for the study of this dynamic interdisciplinary field. Nida was honored with the patriarch of translation studies and a founder of the discipline ma, 2010. She has published extensively on translation, and her best known books include reflections on translation 2011, constructing cultures written with andre lefevere 1996 and postcolonial translation coedited with harish trivedi 1999. This text was made available at the following website. Translation studies, susan bassnett, third edition.
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Constructing cultures brings together for the first time the work of the two translatorscholars who are regarded as founders of this major field of study. Translation isbn 9780415435628 pdf epub susan bassnett. 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. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. According to bassnett, it is a relatively new field which has received very little formal recognition nor respect either until fairly recently.
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