Matthew Reynolds (Professor of English and P Comparative Criticism

Broschiertes Buch

Translation

A Very Short Introduction

Beschreibung

Translation is everywhere, giving us dubbed films, and access to foreign news and the literature of other cultures. Considering subtitling, interpreting, and adaptations, Matthew Reynolds reveals how translation is changing radically in the new age of electronic media.

Autor

Matthew Reynolds is The Times Lecturer in English at Oxford University and a Tutorial Fellow of St Anne's College. He is the author of The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue (OUP, 2011). His previous work on translation includes the Penguin anthology Dante in English (Penguin, 2005) which he co-authored with Eric Griffiths, the chapter on 'Principles and Norms of Translation' in vol. 4 of the Oxford History of Literary Translation in English (OUP, 2006), and a series of essays in the London Review of Books. He chairs the annual Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 172mm x 110mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 144g
• ISBN-13: 9780198712114
• ISBN-10: 0198712111
• Artikelnr.: 44819825