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Translating Stoner, Translating a University Life

Letterature d'America : rivista trimestrale : XLIV, 201/202, 2024
This essay reflects on literary translation, taking into account John Williams’s novel Stoner (1965) and its translation into Italian by Stefano Tummolini (2012). Using george Steiner’s paradigm, which states that all understanding is a form of translation, we see how Williams’s writing is a translation in its own right, that is, an interpretation of ...
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Translation and the politics of the universal

Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, 2014
This paper is about why the present world has to rethink the problem of universality, why translation plays so pre-eminent a role in restaging the universal and how to translate the universal across linguistic or cultural boundaries to the satisfaction of all concerned.
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Cosmos: The Universe Translated

2018
This chapter is devoted to Humboldt’s last, great work Cosmos. This multi-volume ‘Sketch of a Physical Description of the World’ ranged encyclopaedically from the darkest corners of space to the smallest forms of terrestrial life, describing the larger systems at work in the natural world. But, as British reviewers were swift to query, where was God in
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Universalism in Translation Studies

2017
Abstract It is sometimes said that the way to develop current translation theory is to look at specifically non-Euro-centric and non-Western approaches and learn from them. Against such a position I take a Popperian view. I argue that this proposal is flawed because it commits the genetic fallacy, where an idea or hypothesis
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Translation, Universals, Mystère

1988
In an essay appropriately entitled ‘Understanding as Translation’, Steiner considers the omnipresence of translation in the human use of language. He notices how reading Shakespeare is tantamount to translating him: the historical development of language demands a decipherment between two psychocultural contexts. Likewise, ‘The world of an Austen novel
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Form and meaning in collocations: a corpus-driven study on translation universals in Chinese-to-English business translation

Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, 2018
Haoda Feng, Ineke H M Crezée
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Translation Universals of Discourse Markers in Russian-to-Chinese Academic Texts: A Corpus-based Approach

Zeitschrift Fur Slawistik, 2017
Zhanhao Jiang, Yuan Tao
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Universities in Translation

2010
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A Corpus-based Study of Translation Universals in Korean-English Literary Translation

Lingua Humanitatis, 2022
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Universals of translation

2003
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