Translation and the Classic: Identity as Change in the History of Culture

by Alexandra Lianeri

Contemporary translation studies have explored translation not as a means of recovering a source text, but as a process of interpretation and production of literary meaning and value. Translation and the Classic uses this idea to discuss the relationship between translation and the classic
text. It proposes a framework in which 'the classic' figures less as an autonomous entity than as the result of the interplay between source text and translation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199288070
• ISBN13: 9780199288076
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"