Translation Studies

Susan Bassnett tackles the crucial problems of translation and offers a history of translation theory, beginning with the ancient Romans and encompassing key twentieth-century structuralist work.

Susan Bassnett is Professor of Comparative Literary Studies in Translation, the Centre for Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick.

General Editor's Preface

ix

Acknowledgements

xi

Preface to the third edition

1

(10)

Introduction

11

(10)

Central issues

21

(24)

Language and culture

21

(1)

Types of translation

22

(1)

Decoding and recoding

23

(7)

Problems of equivalence

30

(6)

Loss and gain

36

(1)

Untranslatability

37

(6)

Science or 'secondary activity'?

43

(2)

History of translation theory

45

(34)

Problems of `period study'

46

(2)

The Romans

48

(3)

Bible translation

51

(4)

Education and the vernacular

55

(3)

Early theorists

58

(2)

The Renaissance

60

(2)

The seventeenth century

62

(3)

The eighteenth century

65

(2)

Romanticism

67

(3)

Post-Romanticism

70

(1)

The Victorians

71

(3)

Archaizing

74

(1)

The twentieth century

75

(4)

Specific problems of literary translation

79

(53)

Structures

79

(4)

Poetry and translation

83

(27)

Translating prose

110

(9)

Translating dramatic texts

119

(13)

Conclusion

132

(3)

Notes

135

(11)

Select Bibliography

146

(19)

Appendix: The original text of The Seafarer

165

(4)

Index

169

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