Description
This book provides a guide to key approaches in translation studies.The book is divided into 9 specialist areas: culture, philosophy, linguistics, history, literary, gender, theatre and opera, screen, and politics. Each chapter gives an in-depth account of theoretical concepts, issues and debates which define a field within translation studies.
Author: Piotr Kuhiwczak
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: 04/12/2007
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.41d
ISBN13: 9781853599569
ISBN10: 1853599565
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | General
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Translating & Interpreting
- Literary Criticism | General
About the Author
Piotr Kuhiwczak is Associate Professor at the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Warwick. He has published extensively in the fields of comparative literature, cultural studies and translation studies, and is co-author of Successful Polish-English Translation: Tricks of the Trade (3rd revised edn 2005).
Karin Littau is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. Her work on translation and film adaptation has appeared in a number of books and journals, among them MLN, Dedalus, and TTR. She is the author of Theories of Reading. Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania (2006).