Babel : adventures in translation / Dennis Duncan, Stephen Harrison, Katrin Kohl and Matthew Reynolds.

This innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. It tells the story of how ideas have travelled via the medium of translation into different languages and cultures, foc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Duncan, Dennis (Dennis J. B.) (Author) Harrison, S. J. (Author) Kohl, Katrin M. (Katrin Maria), 1956- (Author) Reynolds, Matthew, 1969- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : The Bodleian Library, 2019.
Subjects:	Sociolinguistics. Translating and interpreting. Multilingualism. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics.
Physical Description:	176 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Variant Title:	Adventures in translation
Format:	Book

Contents:

Babel: curse or blessing? / Matthew Reynolds
'Debabelization': creating a universal language / Dennis Duncan
Translating the divine / Matthew Reynolds
An epic journey: translating Homer's Iliad and Odyssey / Stephen Harrison
Translating tales: beast fables around the world / Stephen Harrison
Traversing realms of fantasy / Katrin Kohl
Negotiating multilingual Britain / Katrin Kohl
Languages lost in time / Dennis Duncan.