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23%OFFUmberto Eco - Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation - 9780753817988 - V9780753817988
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Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation

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Description for Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation Paperback. From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humourous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: CFP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 111 x 17. Weight in Grams: 202.

From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation.

'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic but, broadly speaking, cultural.'

Umberto Eco is of the world's most brilliant and entertaining writers on literature and language. In this accessible and dazzling study, he turns his eye on the subject of translations and the problems the differences between cultures can cause. The book is full of little gems about ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753817988
SKU
V9780753817988
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99-50

About Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco is Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna and one of the world's most famous -- and admired -- writers. His is the author of the novels In the Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Baudolino and The Island of the Day Before.

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