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Translators through history /
Acclaimed, when it first appeared, as a seminal work - a groundbreaking book that was both informative and highly readable - Translators through History is being released in a new edition, substantially revised and expanded by Judith Woodsworth. Translators have played a key role in intellectual exc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2012.
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| Edición: | Rev. ed. / |
| Colección: | Benjamins translation library ;
101. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Translators through History; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Epigraph; Cover photo source; Table of contents; Table of illustrations; Foreword to the second edition; Preface; Introduction; 1. Translators and the invention of alphabets; Ulfila, evangelist to the Goths; Mesrop Mashtots and the flowering of Armenian culture; Cyril and Methodius among the Slavs; James Evans and the Cree of Canada; A language for England; The emancipation of French; Martin Luther: artisan of the German language; The flowering of the Swedish language; The evolution of the Gbaya language in Cameroon.
- Hebrew: a modern language for IsraelJoost van den Vondel and the Dutch Golden Age; Translating Shakespeare to/on the European Continent; Changing sides: the case of Ireland; Speaking intimately to the Scottish soul
- in translation; Jorge Luis Borges and the birth of Argentine literature; Translation and cultural exchange in African literatures; China: importing knowledge through translation; India: at the crossroads of translation; Baghdad: centre of Arabic translation; Medieval Spain: cultural exchange and rebirth; The Nordic countries: breaking down the barriers of isolation.
- Machine translation: machines as translators?5. Translators and the reins of power; Medieval translation enterprises from Baghdad to Western Europe; Toward multiple centres of power: the case of France; Translation as subversion: Italy and the former Soviet Union; Conquest and colonization in the New World; Women translators: England, the Continent and North America; When translators wield power; Reframing translation in the twenty-first century; 6. Translators and the spread of religions; Judaism: the oral and written word from ancient to modern times.
- Christianity: religious texts in the languages of the worldIslam: the Koran, untranslatable yet abundantly translated; Hinduism: the case of the Bhagavad Gita; Buddhism: the spread of the religion across East Asia; Translating the sacred texts of the East; The Koranic Orient and religious pluralism; Elizabethan England: translating with a purpose; A Huguenot in England: the emergence of European consciousness; Revolutionary France: serving the cause; The impact of translated thought: a Chinese example; American science fiction and the birth of a genre in France.
- 8. Translators and the production of dictionariesMonolingual dictionaries: from clay tablets to paper dictionaries; The dictionary across cultures; The Middle Ages, or the dawn of structured lexicography; The dictionary in Europe: from the Renaissance to the present; Bilingual and multilingual dictionaries; 9. Interpreters and the making of history; Evolving forms and methods of interpreting; Interpreters in the service of religion; Exploration and conquest; War and peace; Interpreting diplomats
- diplomatic interpreters; Appendix I. Description of illustrations.