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Contra Instrumentalism: A Translation Polemic by Lawrence Venuti
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85Contra Instrumentalism questions the long-accepted notion that translation reproduces or transfers an invariant contained in or caused by the source text. This "instrumental" model of translation has... -
The Translation Studies Reader by Lawrence Venuti 9780367235970
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.30The Translation Studies Reader provides a definitive survey of the most important and influential developments in translation theory and research, with an emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first... -
The Translation Studies Reader Lawrence Venuti 9781041035503
Booksplease Price: €61.43The Translation Studies Reader provides the definitive survey of the most important and influential developments in translation theory and research, with an emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first... -
The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation by Lawrence Venuti
RRP: €154.70Booksplease Price: €136.84Since publication over twenty years ago, The Translator's Invisibility has provoked debate and controversy within the field of translation and become a classic text. Providing a fascinating account... -
Translation Changes Everything: Theory and Practice by Lawrence Venuti
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €51.78In Translation Changes Everything leading theorist Lawrence Venuti gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000. The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while... -
The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation Lawrence Venuti 9781138093164
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €37.12Since publication over twenty years ago, The Translator's Invisibility has provoked debate and controversy within the field of translation and become a classic text. Providing a fascinating account... -
Italy: A Traveler's Literary Companion Lawrence Venuti 9781883513146
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.53Some of Italy's best-known writers, including Luigi Pirandello, Natalia Ginzburg, Alberto Moravia, and Antonio Tabucchi, join Italy's rising literary stars to take the reader on a panoramic tour of... -
Rethinking Translation: Discourse, Subjectivity, Ideology Lawrence Venuti 9781138361874
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €39.14Originally published in 1992 Rethinking Translation makes the translator's activity more visible by using critical theory. It examines the selection of the foreign text and the implementation of... -
The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference by Lawrence Venuti 9780415169301
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.82Translation is stigmatized as a form of writing, discouraged by copyright law, deprecated by the academy, exploited by publishers and corporations, governments and religious organizations.Lawrence... -
Translation and Minority: Special Issue of "the Translator" by Lawrence Venuti
RRP: €55.92Booksplease Price: €50.27The premise of this volume is a question: What can the concept of minority bring to the practice and study of translation? Minority is understood here to mean a cultural or political position that is... -
Teaching Translation: Programs, courses, pedagogies LAWRENCE VENUTI (Temple University, USA) 9781138654617
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.21Over the past half century, translation studies has emerged decisively as an academic field around the world, and in recent years the number of academic institutions offering instruction in... -
Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation by Sandra Bermann 9780691116099
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €34.99In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring... -
Fantastic Tales by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.30Lawrence Venuti, winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Global Humanities Translation Prize, among many other awards, has translated into English these Italian Gothic tales of obsessive love,... -
Daybook 1918: Early Fragments by J.V. Foix 9780810140653
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.20Longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in TranslationDaybook 1918: Early Fragments is the first substantial selection in English from the prose poetry of the major Catalan writer J. V. Foix... -
Facets of Domestication: Case Studies in Polish-English and English-Polish Translation by Dorota Guttfeld 9783631660652
RRP: €50.75Booksplease Price: €46.10Lawrence Venuti's distinction between foreignizing and domesticating translation is a powerful concept in translation studies. This volume discusses domestication and foreignization in Polish-English... -
Making the ‘Invisible’ Visible?: Reviewing Translated Works by Jorge Díaz Cintas 9781803740300
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €48.50This book examines some of the criteria against which translated fictional and non-fictional works are assessed. It not only provides a novel cross-cultural insight into reviewing practices,... -
Literary Translation Chantal Wright 9780415745321
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66Routledge Translation Guides cover the key translation text types and genres and equip translators and students of translation with the skills needed to translate them. Concise, accessible and... -
Spectacle & Pigsty Kyoko Yoshida 9781890650537
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €11.54If you think of haiku when you think of Japanese poetry, this book will be a huge surprise. The strange and wild poems of Kiwao Nomura deal with sex and loss and memory by making unpredictable leaps... -
Writing Forward: Translation, Performance, Creativity Susan Bassnett 9781032900667
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.21This collection of essays by a team of internationally respected researchers at the cutting edge of translation studies was inspired by the idea of "writing forward" as a strategy for theatre... -
Translating Controversial Texts in East Asian Contexts: A Methodology for the Translation of ‘Controversy’ by Adam Zulawnik 9780367766245
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €24.25Zulawnik focuses on the broad concept of 'controversy' and issues pertaining to the translation of politically and historically controversial texts in East Asia.The research methodology is... -
The Cultural Turn in Translation Studies Wang Ning 9781032642932
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €41.16Applying the latest Western translation theories to the situation in China, this book redefines translation from an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective, bringing intercultural semiotic... -
Literary Translation and the Making of Originals by Karen Emmerich 9781501329906
Booksplease Price: €37.91Literary Translation and the Making of Originals engages such issues as the politics and ethics of translation; how aesthetic categories and market forces contribute to the establishment and... -
The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature: From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present by David Damrosch 9780691132853
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.85As comparative literature reshapes itself in today's globalizing age, it is essential for students and teachers to look deeply into the discipline's history and its present possibilities. The...