The Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice

By Willis Barnstone

Book Overview

This text explores the history and theory of literary translation as an art form. Arguing that literary translation goes beyond the transfer of linguistic information, the book emphasizes that imaginative originality resides as much in the translation as in the source text - a view that skews conventional ideas of artistic primacy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300051891
• ISBN13: 9780300051896
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.5"