A Companion To Translation Studies.pdf

TOPICS IN TRANSLATION 34

Series Editors: Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick and

Edwin Gentzler, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

A Companion to

Translation Studies

Edited by

Piotr Kuhiwczak and Karin Littau

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The Companion to Translation Studies/Edited by Piotr Kuhiwczak and Karin Littau.

Topics in Translation: 34

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Translating and interpreting. I. Kuhiwczak, Piotr. II. Littau, Karin

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Contents

Notes on Contributors ...................................................................... vii

Introduction

Piotr Kuhiwczak and Karin Littau .................................................................. 1

1 Culture and Translation

Susan Bassnett .......................................................................................... 13

2 Philosophy and Translation

Anthony Pym .......................................................................................... 24

3 Linguistics and Translation

Gunilla Anderman .................................................................................... 45

4 History and Translation

Lynne Long ............................................................................................. 63

5 Literary Translation

Theo Hermans .......................................................................................... 77

6 Gender and Translation

Luise von Flotow ....................................................................................... 92

7 Theatre and Opera Translation

Mary Snell-Hornby ................................................................................. 106

8 Screen Translation

Eithne O'Connell .................................................................................... 120

9 Politics and Translation

Christina Schaffner ................................................................................. 134

Bibliography ................................................................................... 148

Index ............................................................................................. 177

Notes on Contributors

Gunilla Anderman is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of

Surrey, UK. Her research interests include translation theory, drama trans-

lation and the translation of childrens literature. She is the author of Europe

on Stage: Translation and Theatre (2005), and co-editor with Margaret Rogers

of Words, Words, Words: The Translator and the Language Learner (1996), Word,

Text, Translation: Liber Amicorum for Peter Newmark (1999), Translation Today:

Trends and Perspectives (2003), and In and Out of English: For Better, For Worse

(2005).

Susan Bassnett is Professor in the Centre for Translation and Comparative

Cultural Studies at Warwick University, UK. She is the author of over 20

books, including Translation Studies (3rd edn, 2002) which first appeared in

1980, and Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction (1993) which has

been translated into several languages. Her more recent books include

Sylvia Plath: An Introduction to the Poetry (2004), Constructing Cultures (1998)

written with Andre Lefevere, and Post-Colonial Translation (1999) co-edited

with Harish Trivedi.

Luise von Flotow is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of

Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests include gender and other cultural

issues in translation, audiovisual translation, translation and cultural

diplomacy, and literary translation. She is the author of Translation and

Gender: Translating in the Era of Feminism (1997), co-editor of The Politics of

Translation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2001), and co-editor and

translator of the anthology The Third Shore: Women's Fiction from East Central

Europe (2006).

Theo Hermans is Professor of Dutch and Comparative Literature at

University College, London (UCL), and Director of the Centre for

Intercultural Studies. He has published extensively on translation theory

and history, and on Dutch and comparative literature, and his work has

been translated into Chinese, Dutch, German, Spanish and Turkish. He is

the author of Translation in Systems (1999) and, amongst other books, editor

of the seminal volume The Manipulation of Literature: Studies in Literary

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