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  • The Translator's Invisibility

    A History of Translation

    by Lawrence Venuti ...
    Series series Routledge Translation Classics
    Since publication over twenty years ago, The Translator’s Invisibility has provoked debate and controversy within the field of translation and become a classic text. Providing a fascinating account of the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day, Venuti shows how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the canon of foreign literatures in English ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Translation Changes Everything

    Theory and Practice

    by Lawrence Venuti ...
    In Translation Changes Everything leading theorist Lawrence Venuti gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000.The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while engaging with the main trends in research and commentary. The issues covered include basic concepts like equivalence, retranslation, and reader reception; sociological topics like the impact of ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Scandals of Translation

    Towards an Ethics of Difference

    by Lawrence Venuti ...
    Translation is stigmatized as a form of writing, discouraged by copyright law, deprecated by the academy, exploited by publishers and corporations, governments and religious organizations. Lawrence Venuti exposes what he refers to as the 'scandals of translation' by looking at the relationship between translation and those bodies - corporations, governments, religious organizations, publishers - ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Contra Instrumentalism

    A Translation Polemic

    by Lawrence Venuti ...
    Series series Provocations
    Contra Instrumentalism questions the long-accepted notion that translation reproduces or transfers an invariant contained in or caused by the source text. This “instrumental” model of translation has dominated translation theory and commentary for more than two millennia, and its influence can be seen today in elite and popular cultures, in academic institutions and in publishing, in scholarly ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Translation Studies Reader

    Edited by Lawrence Venuti ...
    The Translation Studies Reader provides the definitive survey of the most important and influential developments in translation theory and research, with an emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.The fifth edition of this bestselling Reader has been substantially revised and updated. The introductory essays prefacing each section place a wide range of seminal and innovative readings ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Stronghold

    by Dino Buzzati ...
    Translated by Lawrence Venuti ...
    A glory-starved soldier spends his life awaiting an absent, long-expected enemy in this influential Italian classic of existentialism, now newly translated and with its originally intended title restored.At the start of Dino Buzzati’s The Stronghold, newly commissioned officer Giovanni Drogo has just received his first posting: the remote Fortezza Bastiani. North of this stronghold are impassable ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed

    by Melissa P. ...
    Translated by Lawrence Venuti ...
    The international bestselling erotic novel about a young Sicilian girl's search for love in a pornographic world—"a scandal a la Catherine M." ( L'Espresso, Italy).An instant blockbuster in Italy that went on to become an international literary phenomenon, 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed is the fictionalized memoir of Melissa P., a Sicilian teenager whose quest for love rapidly devolves into a ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Teaching Translation

    Programs, courses, pedagogies

    Edited by LAWRENCE VENUTI ...
    Over the past half century, translation studies has emerged decisively as an academic field around the world, and in recent years the number of academic institutions offering instruction in translation has risen along with an increased demand for translators, interpreters and translator trainers. Teaching Translation isthe most comprehensive and theoretically informed overview of current ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Translation and Minority

    Special Issue of "the Translator"

    Edited by Lawrence Venuti ...
    The premise of this volume is a question: What can the concept of minority bring to the practice and study of translation? Minority is understood here to mean a cultural or political position that is subordinate, whether the social context that so defines it is local, national or global. This position is occupied by languages and literatures that lack prestige or authority, the non-standard and ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Fantastic Tales

    by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti ...
    Translated by Lawrence Venuti ...
    Lawrence Venuti, winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Global Humanities Translation Prize, among many other awards, has translated into English these Italian Gothic tales of obsessive love, mysterious phobias, and the hellish curse of everlasting life.In this collection of nine eerie stories, Iginio Ugo Tarchetti switches effortlessly between the macabre and the breezily comical. Set in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Translation

    Discourse, Subjectivity, Ideology

    Edited by Lawrence Venuti ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Translation
    Originally published in 1992 Rethinking Translation makes the translator’s activity more visible by using critical theory. It examines the selection of the foreign text and the implementation of translation strategies; the reception of the translated text, and the theories of translation offered by philosophers, critics and translators themselves. The book constitutes a rethinking that is both ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • The Bewitched Bourgeois

    Fifty Stories

    by Dino Buzzati ...
    Translated by Lawrence Venuti ...
    Poe and Kafka meet The Twilight Zone in this anthology of fifty fantastical tales, many of them reflecting the political and social energies of the time, by an Italian master of the short story.Dino Buzzati was a prolific writer of stories, publishing several hundred over the course of forty years. Many of them are fantastic—reminiscent of Kafka and Poe in their mixture of horror and absurdity, ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD