The Resource Why translation matters, Edith Grossman
Why translation matters, Edith Grossman
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- Summary
- "Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator's role. As the acclaimed translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, "My intention is to stimulate a new consideration of an area of literature that is too often ignored, misunderstood, or misrepresented." For Grossman, translation has a transcendent importance: "Translation not only plays its important traditional role as the means that allows us access to literature originally written in one of the countless languages we cannot read, but it also represents a concrete literary presence with the crucial capacity to ease and make more meaningful our relationships to those with whom we may not have had a connection before. Translation always helps us to know, to see from a different angle, to attribute new value to what once may have been unfamiliar. As nations and as individuals, we have a critical need for that kind of understanding and insight. The alternative is unthinkable"." -- Book jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 136 p.
- Contents
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- Introduction : why translation matters
- Authors, translators, and readers today
- Translating Cervantes
- Translating poetry
- A personal list of important translations
- Isbn
- 9780300126563
- Label
- Why translation matters
- Title
- Why translation matters
- Statement of responsibility
- Edith Grossman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator's role. As the acclaimed translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, "My intention is to stimulate a new consideration of an area of literature that is too often ignored, misunderstood, or misrepresented." For Grossman, translation has a transcendent importance: "Translation not only plays its important traditional role as the means that allows us access to literature originally written in one of the countless languages we cannot read, but it also represents a concrete literary presence with the crucial capacity to ease and make more meaningful our relationships to those with whom we may not have had a connection before. Translation always helps us to know, to see from a different angle, to attribute new value to what once may have been unfamiliar. As nations and as individuals, we have a critical need for that kind of understanding and insight. The alternative is unthinkable"." -- Book jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1936-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Grossman, Edith
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PN241
- LC item number
- .G75 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Why X matters
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Literature
- Translating and interpreting
- Literatur
- Übersetzung
- Label
- Why translation matters, Edith Grossman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-126) and index
- Contents
- Introduction : why translation matters -- Authors, translators, and readers today -- Translating Cervantes -- Translating poetry -- A personal list of important translations
- Control code
- 424331945
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- xi, 136 p.
- Isbn
- 9780300126563
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009026510
- System control number
- (OCoLC)424331945
- Label
- Why translation matters, Edith Grossman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-126) and index
- Contents
- Introduction : why translation matters -- Authors, translators, and readers today -- Translating Cervantes -- Translating poetry -- A personal list of important translations
- Control code
- 424331945
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- xi, 136 p.
- Isbn
- 9780300126563
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009026510
- System control number
- (OCoLC)424331945
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