Western Translation Theory from Herodotus to Nietzsche offers the most comprehensive collection of translation theory readings available to date, from the Histories of Herodotus in the mid-5th century to the end of the 19th century. This work provides a rich panoply of thinking about translation across the centuries, covering such topics as the best type of translator, problems of translating sacred texts, translation and language teaching, translation as rhetoric, translation and empire, and translation and gender. This pioneering anthology contains over 140 texts with 30 new ones included in…mehr
Western Translation Theory from Herodotus to Nietzsche offers the most comprehensive collection of translation theory readings available to date, from the Histories of Herodotus in the mid-5th century to the end of the 19th century. This work provides a rich panoply of thinking about translation across the centuries, covering such topics as the best type of translator, problems of translating sacred texts, translation and language teaching, translation as rhetoric, translation and empire, and translation and gender. This pioneering anthology contains over 140 texts with 30 new ones included in this edition. 21 texts by 18 authors appear here for the first time in English translation. Every entry includes a bibliographical headnote and footnotes. Intended for classroom use in History of Translation Theory, History of Rhetoric, or History of Western Thought courses, this anthology is also key reading for scholars of translation and those interested in the intellectual history of the West.
Douglas Robinson is Professor of Translation Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and author or editor of 13 Routledge books, including Becoming a Translator, Translation as a Form, Critical Translation Studies, Translationality, Priming Translation, and The Behavioral Economics of Translation.
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Editor's Preface to the 2026 Edition Acknowledgments for the 2026 Edition Editor's Preface to the 1997, 2002, and 2015 Editions Acknowledgments for the First Three Editions Philosophers Biographies
Editor's Preface xvii
Herodotus
Anonymous ('Aristeas') Marcus Tullius Cicero Philo Judaeus Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Paul of Tarsus Lucius Annaeus Seneca Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) Aulus Gellius Epiphanius of Constantia (Salamis) Jerome (Eusebius Hieronymus) Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus) C. Chirius Fortunatianus Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Gregory the Great John Scotus Eriugena King Alfred Aelfric Notker the German Burgundio of Pisa Anonymous Thomas Aquinas Roger Bacon Jean de Meun Dante Alighieri Anonymous Richard Rolle John of Trevisa Coluccio Salutati Anonymous (John Purvey?) Leonardo Bruni King Duarte William Caxton Desiderius Erasmus Thomas More Martin Luther William Tyndale Juan Luis Vives Etienne Dolet Elizabeth Tudor Mikael Agricola Joachim du Bellay Anna Cooke Jacques Peletier du Mans Roger Ascham Etienne Pasquier Margeret Tyler Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Gregory Martin William Fulke John Florio George Chapman Miles Smith Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Jean Chapelain Joseph Webbe Suzanne du Vegerre John Denham Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt Abraham Cowley Pierre Daniel Huet Katherine Philips John Dryden Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon Aphra Behn Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Anne Dacier Joseph Addison Alexander Pope Charles Batteux Elizabeth Carter Samuel Johnson Johann Gottfried Herder Alexander Frazer Tytler Novalis (Friedrich Leopold, Baron von Hardenberg) August Wilhelm von Schlegel Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich Schleiermacher Wilhelm von Humboldt Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, baronne de Staël-Holstein Percy Bysshe Shelley Arthur Schopenhauer Edward FitzGerald Matthew Arnold Francis W. Newman Richard F. Burton Robert Browning Friedrich Nietzsche
Editor's Preface to the 2026 Edition Acknowledgments for the 2026 Edition Editor's Preface to the 1997, 2002, and 2015 Editions Acknowledgments for the First Three Editions Philosophers Biographies
Editor's Preface xvii
Herodotus
Anonymous ('Aristeas') Marcus Tullius Cicero Philo Judaeus Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Paul of Tarsus Lucius Annaeus Seneca Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) Aulus Gellius Epiphanius of Constantia (Salamis) Jerome (Eusebius Hieronymus) Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus) C. Chirius Fortunatianus Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Gregory the Great John Scotus Eriugena King Alfred Aelfric Notker the German Burgundio of Pisa Anonymous Thomas Aquinas Roger Bacon Jean de Meun Dante Alighieri Anonymous Richard Rolle John of Trevisa Coluccio Salutati Anonymous (John Purvey?) Leonardo Bruni King Duarte William Caxton Desiderius Erasmus Thomas More Martin Luther William Tyndale Juan Luis Vives Etienne Dolet Elizabeth Tudor Mikael Agricola Joachim du Bellay Anna Cooke Jacques Peletier du Mans Roger Ascham Etienne Pasquier Margeret Tyler Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Gregory Martin William Fulke John Florio George Chapman Miles Smith Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Jean Chapelain Joseph Webbe Suzanne du Vegerre John Denham Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt Abraham Cowley Pierre Daniel Huet Katherine Philips John Dryden Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon Aphra Behn Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Anne Dacier Joseph Addison Alexander Pope Charles Batteux Elizabeth Carter Samuel Johnson Johann Gottfried Herder Alexander Frazer Tytler Novalis (Friedrich Leopold, Baron von Hardenberg) August Wilhelm von Schlegel Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich Schleiermacher Wilhelm von Humboldt Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, baronne de Staël-Holstein Percy Bysshe Shelley Arthur Schopenhauer Edward FitzGerald Matthew Arnold Francis W. Newman Richard F. Burton Robert Browning Friedrich Nietzsche
Biographies, pp 265-293
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