Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an act of ethnocentric violence by uprooting the text from the language and culture that gave… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
