Author: Willis Barnstone
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300063004
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In this volume, eminent poet, scholar and translator Willis Barnstone explores the history and theory of literary translations as an art form. Arguing that literary translation goes beyond the transfer of linguistic information, Barnstone emphasizes that the translation contains as much imaginative originality as the source text.