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Provocative and controversial, The Scandals of Translation explores the anxious relationships between translation and the institutions that at once need it and marginalize it. Lawrence Venuti, a professional translator, argues that prevalent concepts of authorship degrade translation in... read more
First Sentence
Although the growth of the discipline called "translation studies" has been described as "a success story of the 1980s" (Bassnett and Lefevere 1992: XI), the study of the history and theory of translation remains a backwater in the academy.
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- Lawrence Venuti (Author)
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