The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation (Routledge Translation Classics) - Hardcover

Venuti, Lawrence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113829828X ISBN 13: 9781138298286

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Since publication over twenty years ago, The Translator’s Invisibility has provoked debate and controversy within the field of translation and become a classic text. Providing a fascinating account of the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day, Venuti shows how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the canon of foreign literatures in English and investigates the cultural consequences of the receptor values which were simultaneously inscribed and masked in foreign texts during this period. Reissued with a new introduction, in which the author provides a clear, detailed account of key concepts and arguments in order to issue a counterblast against simplistic interpretations, The Translator’s Invisibility takes its well-deserved place as part of the Routledge Translation Classics series. This book is essential reading for students of translation studies at all levels.

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About the Author

Lawrence Venuti, Professor Emeritus of English at Temple University, USA, is a translation theorist and historian as well as a translator from Italian, French, and Catalan. He is the author of The Translator’s Invisibility (Translation Classics edition, 2018), The Scandals of Translation (1998), and Translation Changes Everything (2013) as well as the editor of Teaching Translation: Programs, Courses, Pedagogies (2017), all published by Routledge.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113829828X
• ISBN 13: 9781138298286
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320