Experiences in Translation, Toronto Italian Studies - Rilegato

Eco, Umberto

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0802035337 ISBN 13: 9780802035332

Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Translation is not about comparing two languages, Umberto Eco argues, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures. An author whose works have appeared in many languages, Eco is also the translator of GTrard de Nerval's Sylvie and Raymond Queneau's Exercices de style from French into Italian. In this book he draws on his substantial practical experience to identify and discuss some central problems of translation. As he convincingly demonstrates, a translation can express an evident deep sense of a text even when violating both lexical and referential faithfulness. Depicting translation as a semiotic task, he uses a wide range of source materials as illustration: the translations of his own and other novels, translations of the dialogue of American films into Italian, and various versions of the Bible. In the second part of his study he deals with translation theories proposed by Jakobson, Steiner, Peirce, and others.

Overall, Eco identifies the different types of interpretive acts that count as translation. An enticing new typology emerges, based on his insistence on a common-sense approach and the necessity of taking a critical stance.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

UMBERTO ECO is Professor of Semiotics, University of Bologna. He is known worldwide as the author of The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum and A Theory of Semiotics.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

'Theory is given concrete exemplification, the likes of which one would rarely expect to find in a book on translation 'theory''

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0802035337
• ISBN 13: 9780802035332
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 135