Babel : adventures in translation /
This innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. It tells the story of how ideas have travelled via the medium of translation into different languages and cultures, foc...
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Oxford :
The Bodleian Library,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Babel: curse or blessing? / Matthew Reynolds
- 'Debabelization': creating a universal language / Dennis Duncan
- Translating the divine / Matthew Reynolds
- An epic journey: translating Homer's Iliad and Odyssey / Stephen Harrison
- Translating tales: beast fables around the world / Stephen Harrison
- Traversing realms of fantasy / Katrin Kohl
- Negotiating multilingual Britain / Katrin Kohl
- Languages lost in time / Dennis Duncan.