Translating Literature.

• Superior document: Approaches to Translation Studies ; v.4
• Author: Lefevere, André.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1977.; ©1977.
• Year of Publication: 1977
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Approaches to Translation Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (126 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- PART I: ESTABLISHING THE TRADITION -- MARTIN LUTHER -- Enlighten and "Germanize -- Three Rules -- JUSTUS GEORG SCHOTTEL -- The Translator's Knowledge of His Mother Tongue -- The Translator's Duty to Improve His Mother Tongue -- JOHANN CHRISTOPH GOTTSCHED -- Context and Adaptation to Period Style -- Translation as a Model -- Rules -- JOHANN JAKOB BODMER -- The Ninety-Fourth Letter -- JOHANN JACOB BREITINGER -- Equivalence -- GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING -- Genre -- Commercialization -- The Need for Criticism of Translations -- The Adequacy of Models -- Translation and Commentary -- The Best Translator -- JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERDER -- Translation as "Improvement -- Translation and Explication -- Context -- Pedanticism and Commercialization -- Translation of a Culture -- Irrelevant Criticism -- Reading Is Translation -- JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE -- The Three Epochs of Translation -- The Pedagogical Value of Prose Translations -- In Praise of the Translator -- Translation as Discovery of the Foreign -- Author, Reader, Translator: The Two Maxims -- WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT -- A Theory of Translation -- AUGUST WILHELM SCHLEGEL -- Translations Aimed at the Author or His Work -- The Impact of Translation on the Native Tradition -- Translation and Paraphrase: The French and the German Model -- The Problem of Annotations -- Metrical Translation -- Translation as Recreation -- Imitation and the Limits of a Language -- Fidelity and the Translator as Creator of Language -- FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL -- Maxims on Translation and Translators -- Translation and the Introduction of New Genres and Forms -- Translation as a Category of Thought -- Criticism of the Tradition -- NOVALIS -- Three Kinds of Translation -- Translation as Original Work -- FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER -- On the Different Methods of Translating.

PART II: INTERNAL CRITICISM OF THE TRADITION -- Introductory Remarks -- JAKOB GRIMM -- Fidelity and Freedom -- FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE -- Translation as Conquest -- KARL VOSSLER -- Translation as Cultural Imperialism -- ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER -- Equivalence and the Atomization of the Original -- WALTER BENJAMIN -- The Concept of the Third Language -- ULRICH VON WILAMOWITZ-MOELLENDORFF -- Translation, Philology, and Creativity -- Against Metrical Translation -- RUDOLF BORCHARDT -- Translation as an Act of Restoration -- FRANZ ROSENZWEIG -- The Impossibility and Necessity of Translation -- References -- Index of Names.