Theo Hermans is Professor of Dutch and Comparative Literature and Director of the Centre for Intercultural Studies at University College London. A founding member of the Translation Research Summer School and the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies, he also edits the series Translation Theories Explored for St Jerome Publishing. He is the author of several books, including Translation in Systems and The Structure of Modernist Poetry, and editor of Translating Others, Crosscultural Transgressions and The Manipulation of Literature.
Preface
1. The End
Words from above
Vienna's treaties
Versions of authority
Authentication in a minor key
2. Before the End
Hostile dynasties
Self-reference
Metatranslation
3. Irony's Echo
Translation, quotation, demonstration
Reported speech
Echoic translation
4. Real Presence
Uccello's predella
Transubstantiation
Figuration
Conversion
5. Connecting Systems
System
Form
Training
Observation
History
6. The Thickness of Translation Studies
Domestic representations
The thick of it
Understood?
