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  • Translation (Theory) as an Assemblage

    Seven Rhizomatic Plateaus

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This experimental book on translation borrows its title and methodology from the introduction to Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. As they theorize it, an assemblage (French agencement) works through a complex socio-material network characterized by fluidity, exchangeability, and connectivity. They contrast the assemblage with what they call the “root-tree,” which is rooted in stable ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • A Zombie Theory of Translation

    Or, What is a 'Revenant' Translation?

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Series series Elements in Translation and Interpreting
    In 'Des Tours de Babel' Jacques Derrida brilliantly deconstructs Benjamin's 1923 essay, but in 'What is a 'Relevant' Translation?' his wording suggestively hints at the possibility that Benjamin sees the source text dying and returning to life as the translation, in which only the body (not the mind, not the spirit, not the sense) of the source text survives. Smash these two brilliant theorists' ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Western Translation Theory from Herodotus to Nietzsche

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Western Translation Theory from Herodotus to Nietzsche offers the most comprehensive collection of translation theory readings available to date, from the Histories of Herodotus in the mid-5th century to the end of the 19th century. This work provides a rich panoply of thinking about translation across the centuries, covering such topics as the best type of translator, problems of translating ... Read more

    $309.18 CAD

  • Translation, Pornography, Performativity

    Experimenting with That Dangerous Supplement

    by Douglas Robinson, Xiaorui Sun ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Robinson and Sun’s book goes in search of the neglected metaphorics of translation in pornography using poststructuralist rethinkings and reframings of porn (and masturbation) from Jacques Derrida to Judith Butler.In his 1684 “Essay on Translated Verse,” the Earl of Roscommon attacked “want of decency” in translation metaphorically by comparing it to picking up prostitutes in the park (“raking the ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Priming Translation

    Cognitive, Affective, and Social Factors

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    This innovative volume builds on Michael S. Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory toward radically expanding the theoretical and methodological scope of translational priming research.Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory, based on empirical studies carried out with split-brain patients, argues for the Left-Brain Interpreter (LBI), a module in the brain’s left hemisphere that seeks to make sense of their world ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Translation as a Form

    A Centennial Commentary on Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator”

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    This is a book-length commentary on Walter Benjamin’s 1923 essay "Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers," best known in English under the title "The Task of the Translator." Benjamin’s essay is at once an immensely attractive work for top-flight theorists of translation and comparative literature and a frustratingly cryptic work that cries out for commentary. Almost every one of the claims he makes in it ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • The Experimental Translator

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book celebrates experimental translation, taking a series of exploratory looks at the hypercyborg translator, the collage translator, the smuggler translator, and the heteronymous translator.The idea isn’t to legislate traditional translations out of existence, or to “win” some kind of literary competition with the source text, but an exuberant participation in literary creativity. Turns out ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • God's Secret Recipe to Make You Rich

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Whoever has the knowledge of the secret of wealth and success will be blessed with wealth and abundance. Whoever does not have that knowledge, will have whatever little they have taken away. There is scriptural evidence that God has blessed people through the ages with phenomenal wealth and success, so why won't he bless you? God has a secret recipe to make you rich - use it! ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introducing Performative Pragmatics

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    This user-friendly introduction to a new ‘performative’ methodology in linguistic pragmatics breaks away from the traditional approach which understands language as a machine. Drawing on a wide spectrum of research and theory from the past thirty years in particular, Douglas Robinson presents a combination of ‘action-oriented approaches’ from sources such as J.L. Austin, H. Paul Grice, Harold ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Translationality

    Essays in the Translational-Medical Humanities

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This book defines "translationality" by weaving a number of sub- and interdisciplinary interests through the medical humanities: medicine in literature, the translational history of medical literature, a medical (neuroscience) approach to literary translation and translational hermeneutics, and a humanities (phenomenological/performative) approach to translational medicine. It consists of three ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Becoming a Translator

    An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Fusing theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a Translator is the essential resource for novice and practicing translators. The book explains how the market works, helps translators learn how to translate faster and more accurately, as well as providing invaluable advice and tips about how to deal with potential problems, such as stress.The fourth ... Read more

    Was $61.99 CAD Now $54.95 CAD

  • Lessons Experimental Translators Can Learn from Finnegans Wake

    Translouting that Gaswind into Turfish

    by Douglas Robinson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Inspiring translators by making specific experimental writing strategies available to them, this book reimagines experimental translation through close readings of Finnegans Wake.Robinson’s engagement with translational aspects of Finnegans Wake provides rich and useful insights into experimental translation that encourage new approaches to translation theory and practice. The author analyses ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD