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Index of Books
Dealing with Translation
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Books about Translation under Review:
- Babel (B), Dennis Duncan, Stephen Harrison, Katrin Kohl, and Matthew Reynolds - Adventures in Translation
- The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny (B+), eds. Jeffrey Henderson and Richard Thomas - Proceedings of the First James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau 18-20 May 2017
- The Man Between (B), eds. Esther Allen, Sean Cotter, and Russell Scott Valentino - Michael Henry Heim & A Life in Translation
- ALTER, Robert: The Art of Bible Translation (B)
- APOSTOL, Gina: The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata (B+) - fiction
- BELLOS, David: Is That a Fish in Your Ear ? (B+) - Translation and the Meaning of Everything
- BRIGGS, Kate: This Little Art (B)
- DAVIS, Lydia: Proust, Blanchot and a Woman in Red (B)
- ECO, Umberto: Experiences in Translation (B+)
- EMMERICH, Michael: The Tale of Genji (B+) - Translation, Canonization, and World Literature
- FEENEY, Denis: Beyond Greek (B) - The Beginnings of Latin Literature
- FIGUEIRA, D.M.: Translating the Orient (B+) - The Reception of Sakuntala in Nineteenth-Century Europe
- GASS, William H.: Reading Rilke (B+)
- GHANOONPARVAR, M.R.: Translating the Garden (B)
- GROSSMAN, Edith: Why Translation Matters (B)
- HOFSTADTER, Douglas: Translator, Trader (B+) - An Essay on the Pleasantly Pervasive Paradoxes of Translation
- HORTA, Paulo Lemos: Marvellous Thieves (B+) - Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights
- JOHNSON-DAVIES, Denys: Memories in Translation (B) - A Life Between the Lines Of Arabic Literature
- JULLIEN, François: The Book of Beginnings (B+) - Chinese
- KARASHIMA David: Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami (B)
- KELLMAN, Steven G. (ed.): Switching Languages (B)
- KILPI, Volter: Gulliver's Voyage to Phantomimia (B+) - A transcreation by Douglas Robinson
- KILITO, Abdelfattah:
- Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language (B+) - Arabic
- The Tongue of Adam (B+)
- LAHIRI, Jhumpa: Translating Myself and Others (B+)
- LANDERS, Clifford E.: Literary Translation (B) - A Practical Guide
- LESSIG, Lawrence: Fidelity & Constraint (B+) - How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution
- MANETTI, Giannozzo: A Translator's Defense (B+)
- MARANI, Diego: The Interpreter (B) - fiction
- MATTHIEUSSENT, Brice: Revenge of the Translator (B) - fiction
- MONTGOMERY, Scott L.: Science in Translation (B+)
- MORGAN, Ann: Reading the World (US title: The World Between Two Covers) (B) - Confessions of a Literary Explorer
- NGUGI wa Thiong'o: Decolonising the Mind (B)
- O'NEILL, Patrick:
- Finnegans Wakes (-) - Tales of Translation
- Polyglot Joyce (B) - Fictions of Translation
- PASTIOR, Oskar: o du roher iasmin (-) - Baudelaire variations
- PEREC, Georges: Wishes (-) - translations and transmogrifications
- PULLEYN, Simon (ed.): Homer: Odyssey, Book I (A-) - translation and commentary
- RABASSA, Gregory: If This Be Treason (B) - Translation and its Dyscontents
- ROSSI, Paolo: Logic and the Art of Memory (B+)
- SCHMIDT, Michael: Gilgamesh (B) - The Life of a Poem
- SETZ, Clemens J.: Die Bienen und das Unsichtbare (B) - invented languages
- [THIRLWELL, Adam: Miss Herbert (also: The Delighted States) -- A Collage of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompanied by Maps, Portraits, Squiggles, Illustrations, & a Variety of Helpful Indexes]
- TURLE, Bernard: Diplomat, Actor, Translator, Spy (B+)
- VENUTI, Lawrence: The Scandals of Translation (B+)
- WALDROP, Rosmarie: Lavish Absence (B+) - Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès
- WECHSLER, Robert: Performing without a Stage (B-)
- WEINBERGER, Eliot: 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (A)
- WOOD, Gareth J.: Javier Marías's Debt to Translation (A-)
- WRIGHT, Chantal: Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue (B+) - An Experimental Translation
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Books with Multiple Translations under Review
- KALIDASA:
- Meghaduta:
- as The Cloud-Messenger, (B) (trans. Arthur W. Ryder)
- as The Cloud Messenger, (B) (trans. F. and E.Edgerton)
- as The Transport of Love, (B) (trans. Leonard Nathan)
- Sakuntala:
- Abhijnanasakuntalam, (B) (trans. Chandra Raja
- The Recognition of Sakuntala, (B+) (trans. Arthur W. Ryder)
- Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, (B+) (trans. B.S. Miller)
- Meghaduta:
- KHAYYAM, Omar:
- The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam, (B-) (trans.: P.Avery/J.Heath-Stubbs)
- The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, (A) (trans.: Edward FitzGerald)
- MUKUNDAN, Maniyambath: Nrittam (trans. Mary T. Mathew) and Dance (trans. D Krishna Ayyar and KG Ramakrishnan), (C-)
- p'BITEK, Okot:
- The Defence of Lawino (B) (trans. Taban lo Liyong)
- Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol (B+)
- PEREC, Georges:
- Penser/Classer:
- in: Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (A-) (trans. John Sturrock)
- Thoughts of Sorts (A-) (trans. David Bellos)
- Penser/Classer:
- PETRONIUS:
- TASSO, Torquato:
- Jerusalem Delivered, (A-) (trans.: Edward Fairfax)
- Jerusalem Delivered, (B+) (trans.: Anthony M. Esolen)
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