Description
Book SynopsisDouglas 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.
Trade ReviewDouglas Robinson ... has rendered a great service to all those interested in translation theory, both as a fundamentally linguistic construct and as a Western socio-cultural phenomenon. (K. Lloyd-Jones, International Journal of the Classical Tradition) Every translator should dip into it and sample our professional discipline in its historical persective. (Ronald Sim, Notes on Translation) ... bound to become the major anthology in English ... a splendid achievement. (Theo Hermans, Translation and Literature)
Table of ContentsEditor'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 Staël-Holstein
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Arthur Schopenhauer
Edward FitzGerald
Matthew Arnold
Francis W. Newman
Richard F. Burton
Robert Browning
Friedrich Nietzsche
Biographies, pp 265-293
