Theories of Translation

Reducere. From Table of Contents: - Philosophical and Psychological Theories on Humour - Linguistic Approaches to Humour - Humour Mechanisms in the Novels Th...

Reducere. Originally titled MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, this short book was first published in 1848 (first English edition was 1850, though this transl...

On War is one of the most important books ever written on the subject of war. Clausewitz, a Prussian officer who fought against the French during t...

Reducere. Established in 1972, Radical Philosophy (RP) is one of the UK's oldest self-published journals of the independent left. This Winter 2021 issue cont...

With so many Bible translations available today, how can you find those that will be most useful to you? What is the difference between a translati...

Reducere. Adrien Sixte is a reclusive intellectual known for his theories on psychological materialism. Sixte's orderly, self-enclosed world is violently int...

Reducere. On War is one of the most important books ever written on the subject of war. Clausewitz, a Prussian officer who fought against the French during t...

Reducere. Do you want to read The Communist Manifesto? If so then keep reading...'It was a sweet finish after the bitter pills of floggings and bullets with ...

Reducere. For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, 1887 1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted...

Reducere. William Harvey's On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals is a classic work of the scientific revolution and of modern medicine, for in it h...

The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has a rich six-hundred-year history and has had a huge influence on Japanese culture and such Western artists as E...

Arguably Brecht's greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertio...

Reducere. Posthumously published in 1864, The Maine Woods depicts Henry David Thoreau's experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the author's tran...

Paul Celan (1920-1970) is perhaps the most widely read of modern German-language poets, and yet his reputation has been constructed on a small body...

Contributor(s): Author: Ron RhodesGiven the wealth of English translations of the Bible available today, how can anyone know which is the right one...

A recognized expert in New Testament Greek offers a historical understanding of the writing, transmission, and translation of the New Testament and...

Reducere. Often controversial, always inspired, Jacques Lacan here weighs theories of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of know...

DescriptionCan the seeker after Truth wholly depend on the guidance found in books on Sufism or are the oral teachings of a spiritual master necess...

Reducere. After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote a book about relativity for a popula...

Reducere. After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote a book about relativity for a popula...

This book intersperses philosophical commentary with a new translation of the whole dialogue to present an original case for thinking that Plato's ...

. . . innovative and important thinking about the various relations between feminist theory, queer theory, and lesbian theory, as well as the possi...

Reducere. What Freud did for dreams, Andre Breton (1896-1966) does for despair: in its distortions he finds the marvelous, and through the marvelous the rede...

Trenchant, sophisticated, and cynical, Han Feizi has been read in every age and is still of interest today when people are more than ever concerned...

DescriptionThe Cambridge Companion to World Literature introduces the significant ideas and practices of world literary studies. It provides a luci...

The first English translation of one of the earliest and most brilliant art-historical surveys, from one of the greatest modern art historians Aloï...

Michael Ferber's accessible introduction to poetry's unusual uses of language tackles a wide range of subjects from a linguistic point of view. Wri...

Reducere. Wu Yuan Zhuang is a translation of the third level practice of Zhineng Qigong, one of the most influential and powerful qigong sect in China. The b...

Reducere. Cicero's On the Commonwealth and On the Laws were his first and most substantial attempts to adapt Greek theories of political life to the circumst...

The first critical, scholarly translation of Cesare Lombroso's Criminal Man (first published in 1876), one of the most famous criminological treati...

Description"To win, we must endeavour to be the stronger of the two at the point of impact. Our only hope of this lies in making our own choice of ...

DescriptionPierre Schaeffer's In Search of a Concrete Music ( la recherche d'une musique concr te) has long been considered a classic text in elect...

The first English translation of Fr Ruy Lopez's 1561 book about chess, Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del ajedrez. Lopez is widely ...

Reducere. This is the first comprehensive textbook teaching English-speakers to read, write, and speak contemporary Bulgarian. The text is designed to be ada...

This is the first complete English translation of Hasdai Crescas's Light of the Lord, a seminal work of medieval Jewish philosophy. Crescas challen...

Reducere. This new translation makes one of the most important texts in ancient philosophy freshly available to modern readers. Cicero was an intelligent and...

DescriptionBeginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this book traces the intell...

This collection engages with translation and interpreting from a diverse but complementary range of perspectives, in dialogue with the seminal work...

Introducing Translation Studies remains the definitive guide to the theories and concepts that make up the field of translation studies. Providing ...

Contributor(s): Author: Eileen Hunt BottingFrom her youth, Mary Shelley immersed herself in the social contract tradition, particularly the educati...

Reducere. Sigmund Freud evolved his theories throughout his lifetime. This entailed many revisions and changes which he himself never tried to standardize ri...

First serviceable English translation in nearly a century of the only surviving work of its type in Greek literature. The major source for studying...

Reducere. Behind the superficial obscurity of what fragments we have of Heraclitus' thought, Professor Kahn claims that it is possible to detect a systematic...

Reducere. This exceptional book is destined to shed light on an ancient and thoroughly mystical practice of the Kaula school of Indian Tantricism. To reach t...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Anthony (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain) PymIllustration(s): 4 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Hal...

Whether a student, an instructor, a researcher, or just someone interested in understanding the roots of sociology and our social world, The Cambri...