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Foreign words : translator-authors in the age of Goethe /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bernofsky, Susan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2005]
Series:Kritik (Detroit, Mich.)
Subjects:
Literature > Translations into German > History and criticism.
Translating and interpreting > Philosophy.
Translating and interpreting > Germany > History > 19th century.
Translating and interpreting > Germany > History > 18th century.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, > 1749-1832.
Hölderlin, Friedrich, > 1770-1843.
Kleist, Heinrich von, > 1777-1811.
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Table of Contents:
  • From Homer to Shakespeare: the rise of service translation in the late eighteenth century
  • The translation as a Döppelganger: Amphitryon by Moliere and Kleist
  • Hölderlin as translator: the perils of interpretation
  • The paradox of the translator: Goethe and Diderot
  • Coda: from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.