Strange Loops of Translation, The - Softcover

Robinson, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501382462 ISBN 13: 9781501382468

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Synopsis

One of the most exciting theories to emerge from cognitive science research over the past few decades has been Douglas Hofstadter’s notion of “strange loops,” from Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979). Hofstadter is also an active literary translator who has written about translation, perhaps most notably in his 1997 book Le Ton Beau de Marot, where he draws on his cognitive science research. And yet he has never considered the possibility that translation might itself be a strange loop. In this book Douglas Robinson puts Hofstadter’s strange-loops theory into dialogue with a series of definitive theories of translation, in the process showing just how cognitively and affectively complex an activity translation actually is.

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About the Author

Douglas Robinson is Chair Professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, and is one of the world’s leading experts on translation. He is the author or editor of two dozen books, including path-breaking publications in translation studies such as The Translator’s Turn (1991), Translation and Taboo (1996), Translation and the Problem of Sway (2011), and The Dao of Translation (2015). He is also author of important works on postcoloniality, from Translation and Empire (1997) to Displacement and the Somatics of Postcolonial Culture (2013).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501382462
• ISBN 13: 9781501382468
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236