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New Publication: The 5th edition of the Translation Studies Reader

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New Publication:

Title: The Translation Studies Reader, 5th Edition.

Editor: Lawrence Venuti

About the new edition:

The Translation Studies Reader offers a definitive survey of the most significant and influential developments in translation theory and research, with a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The fifth edition has undergone substantial revisions and updates. The introductory essays prefacing each section place a wide range of seminal and innovative readings within their various contexts: thematic and cultural, institutional and historical. Notable features include:

  • New readings that sketch the history of Arabic translation from antiquity to the twentieth century

  • New readings that sample key trends in translation research since 2000, including incisive commentary on topics of current debate in the field such as world literature, migration, and translingualism; the transmission of knowledge; and translation and AI

  • A conceptual organization that illuminates the main models of translation theory and practice, as well as the main topics in research

Read more: https://www.routledge.com/The-Translation-Studies-Reader/Venuti/p/book/9781041035503