Translating Cultures, Translating Literatures: New Vistas and Approaches in Literary Studies

by Michael Irmscher

Book Overview

The rapid, recent, and international growth of interest in problems of translation has scarcely registered in literature departments in the United States. Here translation is still largely seen as a didactic exercise, and translation studies is regarded as groping toward rules about how to carry an utterance from one language into another. In Europe and Israel, however, university centers have been established to further the "science of translation"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804735441
• ISBN13: 9780804735445
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"