Bibliograph

Western translation theory, from Herodotus to Nietzsche, [edited by] Douglas Robinson

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Label

Western translation theory, from Herodotus to Nietzsche, [edited by] Douglas Robinson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-319) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Western translation theory

Medium

electronic resource

Responsibility statement

[edited by] Douglas Robinson

Sub title

from Herodotus to Nietzsche

Summary

Offers a comprehensive collection of translation theory readings, from the "Histories of Herodotus" in the mid-fifth century before our era to the end of the nineteenth century. This book covers such topics as the best type of translator, problems of translating sacred texts, translation and language teaching, and translation as rhetoric., Douglas Robinson offers the most comprehensive collection of translation theory readings available to date, from the Histories of Herodotus in the mid-fifth century before our era to the end of the nineteenth century. The result is a startling panoply of thinking about translation across the centuries, covering such topics as the best type of translator, problems of translating sacred texts, translation and language teaching, translation as rhetoric, translation and empire, and translation and gender. This pioneering anthology contains 124 texts by 90 authors, 9 of them women. Sixteen texts by 4 authors appear here for the first time in English translation; 17 texts by 9 authors appear in completely new translations. Every entry is provided with a bibliographical headnote and footnotes. Intended for classroom use in History of Translation Theory, History of Rhetoric or History of Western Thought courses, this anthology will also prove useful to scholars of translation and those interested in the intellectual history of the West

Table Of Contents

Editor's Preface xvii   Herodotus Anonymous ('Aristeas') Marcus Tullius Cicero Philo Judaeus Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Paul of Tarsus Lucius Annaeus Seneca Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) Aulus Gellius Epiphanius of Constantia (Salamis) Jerome (Eusebius Hieronymus) Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus) C.-Chirius Fortunatianus Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Gregory the Great John Scotus Eriugena King Alfred Aelfric Notker the German Burgundio of Pisa Anonymous Thomas Aquinas Roger Bacon Jean de Meun Dante Alighieri Anonymous Richard Rolle John of Trevisa Coluccio Salutati Anonymous (John Purvey?) Leonardo Bruni King Duarte William Caxton Desiderius Erasmus Thomas More Martin Luther William Tyndale Juan Luis Vives Etienne Dolet Elizabeth Tudor Mikael Agricola Joachim du Bellay Anna Cooke Jacques Peletier du Mans Roger Ascham Etienne Pasquier Margeret Tyler Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Gregory Martin William Fulke John Florio George Chapman Miles Smith Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Jean Chapelain Joseph Webbe Suzanne du Vegerre John Denham Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt Abraham Cowley Pierre Daniel Huet- Katherine Philips John Dryden Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon Aphra Behn Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Anne Dacier Joseph Addison Alexander Pope Charles Batteux Elizabeth Carter Samuel Johnson Johann Gottfried Herder Alexander Frazer Tytler Novalis (Friedrich Leopold, Baron von Hardenberg) August Wilhelm von Schlegel Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich Schleiermacher Wilhelm von Humboldt Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, baronne de Stal-Holstein Percy Bysshe Shelley Arthur Schopenhauer Edward FitzGerald Matthew Arnold Francis W. Newman Richard F. Burton Robert Browning Friedrich Nietzsche Biographies, pp 265-293

Target audience

specialized

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