Translators on Translation av Kelly Washbourne

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<p>This is a book in pursuit of translators'' philosophies or personal theories of translation. From Vladimir Nabokov and William Carlos Williams to Ursula Le Guin and Langston Hughes, <i>Translators on Translation</i> coaxes each subject''s reflections on their art, their particular view of translation, and how they carry out their specific form of translation.</p><p>The translators¿ intellectual biographies expand our understanding of their views, often in their own words, on the aesthetic, political, and philosophical nature of translation; lend insight into their translation decision-making on specific works; afford critical summaries and contextualizations of their key theoretical and theoretico-practical works; unearth their figurative conceptualizations of translation; and construct their subject identities. As a person''s body of work can be diffuse, scattered, fragmentary, and contradictory, inner lives have to be constructed and reconstructed. Through a recovery and narrativi