What is it about?

The review is quite negative, as Banting doesn't really know anything about translation, and doesn't really care; she mostly gushes about language in fairly uninformed ways. The review would have been much more tolerant had she not called her book "A Theory of Translation Poetics." It's not.

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Why is it important?

I'm not sure it is. It's mostly a lot of snorting in disgust.

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Not sure why I even agreed to review the thing.

Professor Douglas J. Robinson
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

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This page is a summary of: Body, Inc.: A Theory of Translation Poetics. By Pamela Banting. Pp. xx+250. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1995. Pb. $16.95., Translation and Literature, January 1997, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/tal.1997.6.part_1.99.
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