Since publication over ten years ago, "The Translator's Invisibility" has provoked debate and controversy within the field of translation and become a classic text. Providing a fascinating account of the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day, Venuti shows how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the canon of foreign liter...
Since publication over ten years ago, "The Translator's Invisibility" has provoked debate and controversy within the field of translation and become a classic text. Providing a fascinating account of the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day, Venuti shows how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the canon of foreign literatures in English and investigates the cultural consequences of the receptor values which were simultaneously inscribed and masked in foreign texts during this period. The author locates alternative translation theories and practices in British, American and European cultures which aim to communicate linguistic and cultural differences instead of removing them.In this new edition of his work, Venuti: clarifies and further develops key terms and arguments; responds to critical commentary on his argument; incorporates new case studies that include: an 18th century translation of a French novel by a working class woman; Richard Burton's controversial translation of the Arabian Nights; modernist poetry translation; translations of Dostoevsky by the bestselling translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky; and translated crime fiction; and, updates data on the current state of translation, including publishing statistics and translators' rates. "The Translator's Invisibility "will be essential reading for students of translation studies at all levels. "Lawrence Venuti" is Professor of English at Temple University, Philadelphia. He is a translation theorist and historian as well as a translator and his recent publications include: "The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference" and "The Translation Studies Reader, both published by Routledge."
British and American publishing, in turn, has reaped the financial benefits of successfully imposing Anglo-American culture values on a vast foreign readership, while producing cultures in the United Kingdom and the United States that aggresively monolingual, unreceptively to the forergn, accustomed to fluent translations that invisibly inscribe foreign texts with English language-values and provide readers with narcissistic experience of recongnizing their own culture in a culture other. (查看原文)
Translation wields enormous power in the construction of national identities for foreign cultures, and hence it potentially figures in ethnic discrimination, geopolitical confrantations, colonialism, terrorism, war.
The violence wreaked by translation is partly inevitable, inherent in the translation process, partly potential, emerging at any point in the production and reception of the translated text, varying with specific cultural and social formations at different historical moments. (查看原文)
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外语教学与研究出版社2009版
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