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Worlding Sei Shônagon
The Makura no Soshi, or The Pillow Book as it is generally known in English, is a collection of personal reflections and anecdotes about life in the Japanese royal court composed …
Interpreters as Diplomats
This book looks at the role played throughout history by translators and interpreters in international relations. It considers how political linguistics function and have …
The Hermes Complex
When Hermes handed over to Apollo his finest invention, the lyre, in exchange for promotion to the status of messenger of the gods, he relinquished the creativity that gave life to …
Translation and Gender
Translation and Gender places recent work in translation against the background of the women's movement and its critique of "patriarchal" language. It explains translation …
Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature
Issues of sexuality, censorship, and self-censorship in the formation of national and cultural identities are a focus of great interest in contemporary literary research. This is …
Les Belles Etrangeres
While translation history in Canada is well documented, the history of the translation of Canadian fiction outside the nation remains obscure. "Les Belles Etrangeres" examines the …
Translating Women
Feminist theory has been widely translated, influencing the humanities and social sciences in many languages and cultures. However, these theories have not made as much of an …
Voice and Versification in Translating Poems
Great poets like Shelley and Goethe have made the claim that translating poems is impossible. And yet, poems are translated; not only that, but the metrical systems of English, …
Charting the Future of Translation History
Over the last 30 years there has been a substantial increase in the study of the history of translation. Both well-known and lesser-known specialists in translation studies have …
Translating Canada
In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, Canadian federal governments offered varying degrees of support for literary and other artistic endeavour. A corollary of this …
The Origins of Simultaneous Interpretation
This book offers the first complete analysis of the emergence of simultaneous interpretation a the Nuremburg Trail and the individuals who made the process possible. Francesca …
Changing the Terms
This volume explores the theoretical foundations of postcolonial translation in settings as diverse as Malaysia, Ireland, India and South America. Changing the Terms examines …