Foreign Words: Translators-Authors in the Age of Goethe

by Susan Bernofsky

The turn of the nineteenth century was a particularly fertile period in the history of translation theory and practice. With an unprecedented number of works being carefully translated and scrutinized, this era saw a definite shift in the dominant mode of translation. Many translators began attempting, for the first time, to communicate the formal characteristics, linguistic features, and cultural contexts of the original text while minimizing the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814332226
• ISBN13: 9780814332221
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.4"