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20%OFFGeorge Steiner - After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation - 9780192880932 - V9780192880932
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After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation

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Description for After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation Paperback. This is the third edition of "After Babel", a controversial work in translation studies first published in 1975. The new edition is entirely revised and corrected and contains information which should be of value to anyone involved in the theory and practice of translation. Num Pages: 560 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: CFG; CFK; CFP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 406.
`Translation has long needed a champion, and at last in George Steiner it has found a scholar who is a match for the task.' Sunday Times First published in 1975, After Babel constituted the first systematic investigation of the theory and processes of translation since the eighteenth century. In mapping out its own field, it quickly established itself as both controversial and seminal, and gave rise to a considerable, and still-growing, body of secondary literature. Even today, with its status as a modern classic beyond question, many of the books insights remain provocative and challenging. For ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192880932
SKU
V9780192880932
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About George Steiner
George Steiner is Extraordinary Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, and Professor of English and Compararive Literature at the University of Geneva.

Reviews for After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation
Translation ... has long needed a champion, and at last in George Steiner it has found a scholar who is a match for the task.
Maurice Cranston, Sunday Times
A masterly and impressive work
Jan Marsh, Daily Telegraph

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