What is it about?
Headnotes, excerpts, footnotes, brief bios for everyone mentioned in the text, full bibliographies. A few changes were made for this second edition.
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This is the fullest anthology of pre-twentieth-century Western translation theory readings on the market, and the standard reference work.
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I'm very glad to have this on my own bookshelf; I consult it frequently. There is now a third edition out, published by Routledge.
Professor Douglas J. Robinson
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
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This page is a summary of: Western Translation Theory from Herodotus to Nietzsche, April 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781315759975.
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