" 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 …

To understand translation in an immediately accessible form, one might start with George
Steiner's statement from his study of translation After Babel: Aspects of Language and …

This eclectic collection of essays focuses on a number of intriguing issues in translation:
some of these" polemic" essays challenge certain widespread beliefs and practices: for …

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 …

Let us imagine the following situation as real. We find ourselves in a packed lecture theatre
in Charles University, Prague. In one corner of the room there is—why not?~—a bird's nest …

Many of us make use of translation, in one form or another, on a daily basis. We also talk
about it, informally, perhaps not quite on a daily basis, but regularly. The terms in which we …

This symposium was first planned because several of us involved in the teaching of
translation and interpreting at Sheffield had come to see these things as having features in …

Throughout the history of translation the question" Is translation possible or impossible?" has
been repeatedly asked and debated among philosophers, linguists as well as translators …

OR TRANSLATION THEORY, banal messages are the" FOR breath of life." So remarks
Quine in his famous statement on translation in Word and Object. Both the truth and cynicism …

Nothing could be simpler. You want to know what translation is? Close this book, go out into
the street and ask. Since translation is all around us all the time, surely we know? Indeed we …