What is it about?
A series of engagements with the hottest new approaches to the study of translation that were emerging in the early 1990s.
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Why is it important?
This book may not be "timely" any longer--it was written in the mid-1990s, about trends then current in Translation Studies--but it offers a useful snapshot of the state of the discipline in the middle of the Cultural Turn, as the Linguistic Turn was dying and the Sociological Turn was just emerging.
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At some point after The Translator's Turn (1991) came out, I began to realize that my book had by sheer lucky coincidence been timed perfectly, to come out at the forefront of a whole raft of exciting new approaches to the study of translation--the approaches that would come to be called the Cultural Turn. Once I realized that, I decided to review EVERY new book on translation. Soon the flood of new books on translation made that impossible--I couldn't keep up--but the effort, while it lasted, is commemorialized in What Is Translation?
Professor Douglas J. Robinson
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
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This page is a summary of: What is Translation? Centifugal Theories, Critical Interventions, January 1997, Kent State University,
DOI: 10.21038/ksup.1997.0001.
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