The Scandals of Translation
Towards an Ethics of Difference
Price: $45.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-16930-1
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 6th August 1998
- Pages: 224
About the Book
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Heterogeneity 2. Authorship 3. Copyright 4. The Formation of Cultural Identites 5. The Pedagogy of Literature 6. Philosophy 7. The Bestseller 8. Globalization Bibliography. Index.Customers who bought The Scandals of Translation also bought:
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