''Translation changes everything: Theory and practice'' is a collection of
essays written by translation theorist
Lawrence Venuti
Lawrence Venuti (born 1953) is an American translation theorist, translation historian, and a translator from Italian language, Italian, French language, French, and Catalan language, Catalan.
Career
Born in Philadelphia, Venuti graduated from Te ...
. during the period 2000–2012.
Venuti conceives translation as an interpretive act with far-reaching social effects, at once enabled and constrained by specific cultural situations. The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while engaging with the main trends in research and commentary. The issues covered include basic concepts like equivalence, retranslation, and reader reception; sociological topics like the impact of translations in the academy and the global cultural economy; and philosophical problems such as the translator's unconscious and translation ethics.
Essays within book
Scholarly reviews
Wei Liu in ''Perspectives Studies in Translatology'' published 1 December 2013.
John-Mark Philo in ''Oxford Comparative Criticism & Translation (OCCT)'' published 6 August 2014.
Anthony Pym
Anthony David Pym (born 1956 in Perth, Australia) is a scholar best known for his work in translation studies.
Pym is Distinguished Professor of Translation and Intercultural Studies at Rovira i Virgili University in Spain and Professor Extrao ...
in ''The European Legacy'' published 3 October 2015.
References
2012 non-fiction books
Essays about translation
Routledge books
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