The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference by Venuti, Lawrence

The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415169295)

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The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference by Venuti, Lawrence

The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference

$200.00
The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference by Venuti, Lawrence

The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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Translation 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 Venuti exposes what he refers to as the 'scandals of translation' by looking at the relationship between translation and those bodies - corporations, governments, religious organizations, publishers - who need the work of the translator yet marginalize it when it threatens their cultural values. Venuti illustrates his arguments with a wealth of translations from The Bible, the works of Homer, Plato and Wittgenstein, Japanese and West African novels, advertisements and business journalism.

Author: Lawrence Venuti
ISBN-10: 0415169291
ISBN-13: 9780415169295
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/06/1998
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 03/14/1999 pg. 18
By Lawrence Venuti
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Lawrence Venuti, Professor Emeritus of English at Temple University, USA, is a translation theorist and historian as well as a translator from Italian, French, and Catalan. He is the author of The Translator's Invisibility (Translation Classics edition, 2018), The Scandals of Translation (1998), and Translation Changes Everything (2013) as well as the editor of Teaching Translation: Programs, Courses, Pedagogies (2017), all published by Routledge.

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