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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
George Steiner |
ISBN: | 0192880934 9780192880932 |
OCLC Number: | 37862620 |
Description: | xviii, 538 pages ; 20 cm |
Contents: | Understanding as translation -- Language and gnosis -- Word against object -- The claims of theory -- The hermeneutic motion -- Topologies of culture. |
Responsibility: | George Steiner. |
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Abstract:
This is the third edition of "After Babel", a controversial work in translation studies first published in 1975. The new edition is entirely revised and corrected and contains information which should be of value to anyone involved in the theory and practice of translation.
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A masterly and impressive work * Jan Marsh, Daily Telegraph * Translation ... has long needed a champion, and at last in George Steiner it has found a scholar who is a match for the task. * Maurice Cranston, Sunday Times * Read more...
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