When we learn to speak, we are learning to translate; the child who asks his mother the
meaning of a word is really asking her to translate the unfamiliar term into the simple words …

In a rather disturbing way, literary translations continue to be threatened by the boundaries
that exist between languages. Thus, the art of translation will always have to cope with the …

Spanning the centuries, from the seventeenth to the twentieth, and ranging across cultures,
from England to Mexico, this collection gathers together important statements on the function …

... It remains that I should say somewhat of Poetical Translations in general, and give my
opinion (with submission to better judgments), which way of version seems to be the most …

This essay is an exploration of the theoretical and practical problems posed by translating
Jacques Derrida's essay" What is a'relevant'translation?" into English, given the peculiar …

There are countless book-shelves, probably enough to fill entire libraries, of self-indulgent
nonsense on poetry. In comparison with the quantity of poetry actually produced, the amount …

" Everyone complains about what is lost in translations. This is the first account I have seen
of the potentially positive impact of translation, that it represents... a genuinely new …

How many times have we been tortured by the cliches of the uninitiated, veteran or novice,
that translation is never equal to the original, that languages differ from one another, that …

During a colloquium attended by professors and students from the Collège de France and
other academic circles, someone spoke of the impossibility of translating certain German …

We called this shift of emphasis “the cultural turn” in translation studies, and suggested that a
study of the processes of translation combined with the praxis of translating could offer a way …