Theories of Translation

Spanning the centuries, from the seventeenth to the twentieth, and ranging across cultures, from England to Mexico, this collection gathers together important statements on the function and feasibility of literary translation. The essays provide an overview of the historical evolution in thinking about translation and offer strong individual opinions by prominent contemporary theorists. Most of the twenty-one pieces appear in translation, some here in English for the first time and many difficult to find elsewhere. Selections include writings by Scheiermacher, Nietzsche, Ortega, Benjamin, Pound, Jakobson, Paz, Riffaterre, Derrida, and others. A fine companion to The Craft of Translation, this volume will be a valuable resource for all those who translate, those who teach translation theory and practice, and those interested in questions of language philosophy and literary theory.

Introduction	p. 1
On The Art of Translation	p. 11
On Translation	p. 17
On Language and Words	p. 32
From On the Different Methods of Translating	p. 36
From Introduction to His Translation of Agamemnon	p. 55
Translations	p. 60
Preface to The Early Italian Poets	p. 64
On the Problem of Translation	p. 68
The Task of the Translator	p. 71
Guido's Relations	p. 83
The Misery and the Splendor of Translation	p. 93
Variations on the Eclogues	p. 113
Problems of Translation: Onegin in English	p. 127
On Linguistic Aspects of Translation	p. 144
Translation: Literature and Letters	p. 152
The Poetry of Constancy: Paul Celan's Translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 105	p. 163
Translating Poetry	p. 186
Semantic Theory and Translation Theory	p. 193
Transposing Presuppositions on the Semiotics of Literary Translation	p. 204
From Des Tours de Babel	p. 218
Translating and Being Translated	p. 228
Biographies of the Essayists	p. 239
Select Bibliography	p. 245
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