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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Translation studies: an emerging field
• What is a translation theory?
• Classroom applications
• Read historically
• Read thematically
• Use supplementary readings
• Foundational statements
• Chapter 1 From the Preface to the Sutra of Dharma Verses
• Translator’s notes
• Chapter 2 From the Preface to A Collation of the Perfection of Great Wisdom Sutra
• Translator’s notes
• Chapter 3 Letter to Pammachius
• Translator’s notes
• Chapter 4 Preface to Tacitus
• Translator’s notes
• Chapter 5 From the Preface to Ovid’s Epistles
• Editor’s notes
• Chapter 6 On the different methods of translating
• Notes
• Chapter 7 Translations
• Translator’s notes
• Chapter 8 Translations
• Editor’s notes
• Chapter 9 Paratexts to A Record of the Black Slaves’ Plea to Heaven
• Preface
• Principles of translation
• Afterword
• Translator’s notes
• 1900s–1930s
• Chapter 10 The translator’s task
• Translator’s notes
• Chapter 11 Guido’s relations
• Chapter 12 An exchange on translation
• Editor’s notes
• Chapter 13 The translators of The Thousand and One Nights
• 1 Captain Burton
• 2 Doctor Mardrus
• 3 Enno Littmann
• Notes
• References
• 1940s–1950s
• Chapter 14 Problems of translation: Onegin in English
• I
• II
• III
• IV
• V
• VI
• VII
• Note
• Chapter 15 On linguistic aspects of translation
• Notes
• 1960s–1970s
• Chapter 16 Principles of correspondence
• Different types of translations
• Two basic orientations in translating
• Linguistic and cultural distance
• Definitions of translating
• Principles governing a translation oriented toward formal equivalence
• Principles governing translations oriented toward dynamic equivalence
• Notes
• Chapter 17 The hermeneutic motion
• Notes
• Chapter 18 The position of translated literature within the literary polysystem
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• Chapter 19 The nature and role of norms in translation
• 1 Rules, norms, idiosyncrasies
• 2 Translation as a norm-governed activity
• 3 Translation norms: an overview
• 4 The multiplicity of translational norms
• 5 Studying translational norms
• Notes
• 1980s
• Chapter 20 Skopos and commission in translational action
• 1 Synopsis
• 2 Skopos and translation
• 3 Arguments against the skopos theory
• 4 The translation commission
• Chapter 21 Mother Courage’s Cucumbers: Text, system and refraction in a theory of literature
• Note
• Chapter 22 Translation and the trials of the foreign
• The analytic of translation
• Rationalization
• Clarification
• Expansion
• Ennoblement
• Qualitative impoverishment
• Quantitative impoverishment
• The destruction of rhythms
• The destruction of underlying networks of signification
• The destruction of linguistic patternings
• The destruction of vernacular networks or their exoticization
• The destruction of expressions and idioms
• The effacement of the superimposition of languages
• Chapter 23 Gender and the metaphorics of translation
• Notes
• 1990s
• Chapter 24 The search for a native language: translation and cultural identity
• Issues of language in the theory of translation
• ‘Translated into Québécois’
• Québécois in the market of symbolic commodities
• The distinctive function of Québécois
• The enigmatic Québécois language
• The myths of “Québécois” as a language of translation
• Why translate into Québécois?
• Notes
• Chapter 25 The politics of translation
• Translation as reading
• Translation in general
• Reading as translation
• Notes
• Chapter 26 Thick translation
• I
• II
• III
• IV
• V
• VI
• VII
• VIII
• Notes
• Chapter 27 Translating camp talk: Gay identities and cultural transfer
• 1 Formal and functional dimensions of camp
• 2 Verbal camp
• 2.1 On the surface of camp
• 2.2 Ambivalent solidarity and politeness theory
• 3 Camp, gay sensibility and queer radicalism
• 4 Translations, transformations
• 4.1 Vidal and Mikriammos: coming out in New York and Paris
• 4.2 Duvert and Flores: polymorphous perversity or gay sex?
• 5 Concluding remarks: texts and contexts in translation studies
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 28 What is a “relevant” translation?: Translated by Lawrence Venuti
• Notes
• 2000s and beyond
• Chapter 29 Consecration and accumulation of literary capital: translation as unequal exchange
• Structure of the world literary field
• The position of languages and authors
• Translation as accumulation of capital
• Translation as consecration
• The position of consecrators
• Chapter 30 Text parameters in translation: transitivity and institutional cultures
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Translating for institutions
• 3 Transitivity: the evidence
• 4 Uniformity of approach
• 5 Discoursal shifts
• 6 Conclusions
• Chapter 31 Translation, American English, and the national insecurities of empire
• Translation and empire
• Americanizing English
• The Babel of monolingualism
• Untranslatability and war
• Notes
• Chapter 32 Full. Empty. Stop. Go: translating miscellany in early modern China
• Paper bones: an introduction
• Ink and blood: the Translators’ College
• Minds and memories: the tasks of the translators
• Cells and organs: translating the miscellaneous
• Embodying miscellany: a conclusion
• NotesI am grateful for comments and suggestions made on an earlier version of this chapter, with special gratitude to Karen Newman and Jane Tylus.
• Chapter 33 Migration, translingualism, translation
• Translingual literature as translational
• (On not) translating translingualism
• Translingual translation
• Chapter 34 Genealogies of translation theory: Schleiermacher
• The structures of translation theory and commentary
• Schleiermacher between instrumentalism and hermeneutics
• Interpreting the translator’s interpretation
• Works cited
• Index