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Why translation matters /

Grossman, Edith, (1936-)

Why translation matters /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Why translation matters // Edith Grossman.
Author:	Grossman, Edith,
Published:	New Haven [Conn.] :Yale University Press, : 2010.,
Description:	xi, 135 p. ;21 cm.;
Subject:	Literature - Terminology. -
ISBN:	9780300171303 (pbk.)

Why translation matters /
Grossman, Edith,1936-

Why translation matters /Edith Grossman. - New Haven [Conn.] :Yale University Press,2010. - xi, 135 p. ;21 cm. - Why X matters. - Why X matters..

Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-126) and index.

Introduction : why translation matters -- Authors, translators, and readers today -- Translating Cervantes -- Translating poetry -- A personal list of important translations.

"Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator's role. As the acclaimed translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, "My intention is to stimulate a new consideration of an area of literature that is too often ignored, misunderstood, or misrepresented." For Grossman, translation has a transcendent importance: "Translation not only plays its important traditional role as the means that allows us access to literature originally written in one of the countless languages we cannot read, but it also represents a concrete literary presence with the crucial capacity to ease and make more meaningful our relationships to those with whom we may not have had a connection before. Translation always helps us to know, to see from a different angle, to attribute new value to what once may have been unfamiliar. As nations and as individuals, we have a critical need for that kind of understanding and insight. The alternative is unthinkable"." -- Book jacket.

ISBN: 9780300171303 (pbk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

837294
Literature
--Terminology.

LC Class. No.: PN241 / .G75 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 418.02

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