Translation Theory in the Age of Louis XIV

The 1683 de Optimo Genere Interpretandi (on the Best Kind of Translating) of Pierre Daniel Huet (1630-1721)
Übersetzer: Delater, James Albert

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Produktbeschreibung

Preeminent in a relatively rare category of separate early modern treatises on translation, the 1683 De optimo genere interpretandi by the polymath cleric Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721) offers a concise introduction to its nature, history, theory, process and practice

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 168mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781900650557
• ISBN-10: 190065055X
• Artikelnr.: 42197375

Autorenporträt

James Albert DeLater received a PhD from the University of Washington (1997), where he studied English, comparative literature and translation. He has worked as a technical and medical translator, and taught at Portland State University, Oregon, and Saint Paul's College, Virginia. He currently teaches at Hillsdale College, Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Huet's De optimo genere interpretandi (1661; 1680; 1683):
several views of its importance and neglect as a source for translation
history
Chapter 2: Huet's life, career and works
Chapter 3: De optimo genere interpretandi (1661; 1680; 1683) : its genesis
and publication history
Chapter 4: DOGI : its ancient and medieval sources
Chapter 5: DOGI: two early modern sources for the work: Leonardo Bruni's De
interpretatione recta (c. 1426) Girolamo Catena's Discorso Sopra la
traducttione (1581)
Chapter 6: DOGI: its structure and setting
Chapter 7: Implicit aims and purposes of the DOGI
Chapter 8: Two instances in the reception history of the DOGI: France and
England
Chapter 9: Prefatory remarks on the present translation, text, and their
critical apparatus
First Book of: On the best kind of translating
LIBER PRIMUS, DE OPTIMO GENERE INTERPRETANDI
Reference Works and Abbreviations