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Transmissibility and Cultural Transfer
Dick, Jennifer K.; Schwerter, Stephanie
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Description for Transmissibility and Cultural Transfer
Paperback. Editor(s): Dick, Jennifer K.; Schwerter, Stephanie. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 150 x 10. Weight in Grams: 250.
This book brings together monumental voices in the social sciences -- such as Jean-René Ladmiral from Paris and Peter Caws from Washington DC -- to begin to address the Humanities' specific issues with and debt to translation. Calling for a re-examination of how translations are read, critiqued, and taught in Philosophy, History, Political Science and Sociology departments, this book provides tools for reflection, bases for reconsideration of given translations, and historical observations on how thought has been shaped across national borders. The volume ends with four case studies -- examples from auto-translation in postcolonial literature, cultural issues of translation in ... Read more
This book brings together monumental voices in the social sciences -- such as Jean-René Ladmiral from Paris and Peter Caws from Washington DC -- to begin to address the Humanities' specific issues with and debt to translation. Calling for a re-examination of how translations are read, critiqued, and taught in Philosophy, History, Political Science and Sociology departments, this book provides tools for reflection, bases for reconsideration of given translations, and historical observations on how thought has been shaped across national borders. The volume ends with four case studies -- examples from auto-translation in postcolonial literature, cultural issues of translation in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
Number of Pages
186
Place of Publication
Stuttgart, Germany
ISBN
9783838204024
SKU
V9783838204024
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About Dick, Jennifer K.; Schwerter, Stephanie
Stephanie Schwerter is professor of Anglophone literature at the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France. Previously, she taught Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Before moving to France, she spent six years in Northern Ireland, working at the University of Ulster and at Queens University Belfast.
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