The Translation Studies Reader

This volume provides a definitive survey of the most important and influential developments in translation theory and research, with an emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is essential reading on courses such as the History of Translation studies, Translation Theory and Trends in Translation studies.

The Translation Studies Reader provides a definitive survey of the most important and influential developments in translation theory and research, with an emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The introductory essays prefacing each section place a wide range of seminal and innovative readings within their various contexts, thematic and cultural, institutional and historical.

The fourth edition of this classic reader has been substantially revised and updated. Notable features include:

• Four new readings that sketch the history of Chinese translation from antiquity to the early twentieth century
• Four new readings that sample key trends in translation research since 2000
• Incisive commentary on topics of current debate in the field such as world literature, migration and translingualism, and translation history
• A conceptual organization that illuminates the main models of translation theory and practice, whether instrumental or hermeneutic

This carefully curated selection of key works, by leading scholar and translation theorist, Lawrence Venuti, is essential reading for students and scholars on courses such as the History of Translation Studies, Translation Theory, and Trends in Translation Studies.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Foundational Statements

1 [Zhi Qian?]

From the Preface to the Sutra of Dharma Verses

From the Preface to A Collation of the Perfection of Great Wisdom Sutra

Letter to Pammachius

Prefaces to Tacitus and Lucian

From the Preface to Ovid's Epistles

On the Different Methods of Translating

Translations

Translations

Paratexts to A Record of the Black Slaves' Plea to Heaven

The Translator's Task

Guido's Relations

An Exchange on Translation

The Translators of The One Thousand and One Nights

Problems of Translation: Onegin in English

On Linguistic Aspects of Translation

Principles of Correspondence

The Hermeneutic Motion

The Position of Translated Literature within the Literary Polysystem

The Nature and Role of Norms in Translation

Skopos and Commission in Translation Theory

Mother Courage's Cucumbers: Text, System and Refraction in a Theory of Literature

Translation and the Trials of the Foreign

Gender and the Metaphorics of Translation

The Search for a Native Language: Translation and Cultural Identity

The Politics of Translation

Thick Translation

Translating Camp Talk: Gay Identities and Cultural Transfer

What Is a "Relevant" Translation?

Consecration and Accumulation of Literary Capital: Translation as Unequal Exchange

Text Parameters in Translation: Transitivity and Institutional Cultures

Translation, American English, and the National Insecurities of Empire

Full. Empty. Stop. Go: Translating Miscellany in Early Modern China

Migration, Translingualism, Translation

Genealogies of Translation Theory: Schleiermacher