Experiences in translation / Umberto Eco ; translated by Alastair McEwen.
Experiences in translation / Umberto Eco ; translated by Alastair McEwen.
Experiences in translation / Umberto Eco ; translated by Alastair McEwen.
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Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2001.
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N418.02/58
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English
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x, 135 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Translating and Being Translated -- Equivalence in Meaning -- Incommensurability versus Comparability -- Sameness in Reference -- Translating from Culture to Culture -- Source versus Target -- Foreignizing and Domesticating -- Archaic versus Modern -- Can a Translator Change the Story? -- Translatin...
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Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2001.
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Ontario
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c2001.
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"Translation is not about comparing two languages, Umberto Eco argues, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages." "In this book he draws on his substantial practical experience to identify and discuss some central problems of translation. As he demonstrates, a translation can express an evident deep sense of a text even whe...
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Experiences in translation / Umberto Eco ; translated by Alastair McEwen.
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Toronto Italian studies.
Based on Goggio public lectures presented Oct. 7, 9, 13, 1998, at the Faculty of Information Studies, Univ. of Toronto.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-135).
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c2001.
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N418.02/58
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0802035337
9780802035332
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418.02
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991013970609702626
