Creativity and translation

Douglas Robinson

doi:10.4324/9781315694566

Creativity and translation

Douglas Robinson^*

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Abstract

Theodore Savory (1968) noted decades ago that the prescriptions aimed historically at regulating translations have been notoriously conflicted or contradictory: translators should translate individual words/whole sentences; translators should highlight/conceal the translational nature of the target text; translators should modernise/archaise a literary classic, and so on. Partly, these tensions or contradictions are a by-product of disagreement among the authorities seeking to control translation; more importantly, they reflect the complexity of the act of translation and the impossibility of reducing it to a single simple set of rules.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity
Editors	Rodney H. Jones
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	17
Pages	278-289
Number of pages	12
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315694566
ISBN (Print)	9780415839730, 9780367868109
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315694566
Publication status	Published - 8 Sept 2015

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Name	Routledge Handbooks in English Language Studies
Publisher	Routledge

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