'This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!' One of the great minds of modernity, Friedrich Nietzsche smashed through the beliefs of his age.

Introducing Translation Studies remains the definitive guide to the theories and concepts that make up the field of translation studies.

This book explores the social, political and ideological factors operative in early 'Abbasid society that sustained the translation movement.

This account of how they have contributed to the development of languages, the emergence of literatures, the dissemination of knowledge and the spread of values tells the story of world culture itself.

For additional complimentary materials on this topic, please see the accompanying text Practice, Practice: A Latin Via Ovid Workbook by Norma Goldman and Michael Rossi.

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translator Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, ...

Translation, he writes, “skirts the boundaries between art and craft, originality and replication, altruism and commerce, genius and hack work.” In Sympathy for the Traitor, he shows us how to read not only translations but also the act ...

DIVAn allegory of spiritual crisis and growth, Dante's youthful masterpiece combines prose and poetry in a powerful work in the literature of love. Introduction, new English translation, and notes. /div

Based on the highly acclaimed and award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, this volume will provide an edited collection of almost 400 articles throughout which a representative subset of the world's major languages are ...

A study of the theory and processes of language translation since the eighteenth century.