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Literary Translation

Literary translation is the translation of literary texts (poetry, drama, fiction) distinguished by the simultaneous transfer of semantic meaning, stylistic features, and aesthetic properties from the source language to the target language.

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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

G. N. Leech, Marshall McLuhan · The Modern Language Review · 1963 · 3.4K citations

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Routes: Travel and Translation In the Late Twentieth Century

Richard Handler · American Ethnologist · 1998 · 2.3K citations

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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

Arnold Isenberg, Erich Auerbach, Willard R. Trask · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism · 1954 · 2K citations

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Translation Techniques Revisited: A Dynamic and Functionalist Approach

Lucía Molina, Amparo Hurtado Albir · Meta Journal des traducteurs · 2004 · 1K citations · Full text

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Routledge encyclopedia of translation studies

Choice Reviews Online · 1998 · 914 citations

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  1. AT
    Antonio Toral

    Dublin City University, Ireland

    7 publications · 434 citations

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  2. RS
    Rainer Schulte

    East Carolina University, United States

    7 publications · 989 citations

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  3. RW
    Rachel Weissbrod

    Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    5 publications · 152 citations

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  4. JM
    Josep Marco

    Universitat Jaume I, Spain

    5 publications · 85 citations

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  5. AW
    Andy Way

    Dublin City University, Ireland

    5 publications · 293 citations

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Institutions

688

  1. KU Leuven

    Leuven, Belgium

    12 h-index

    17 publications

    385 citations

  2. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    11 h-index

    12 publications

    302 citations

  3. Dublin City University

    Dublin, Ireland

    11 h-index

    16 publications

    709 citations

  4. York University

    Toronto, Canada

    9 h-index

    11 publications

    327 citations

  5. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    9 publications

    724 citations

  6. University of East Anglia

    Norwich, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    8 publications

    258 citations

  7. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    8 h-index

    8 publications

    431 citations

  8. Bar-Ilan University

    Ramat Gan, Israel

    8 h-index

    9 publications

    203 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 159 publications · 9.5K citations

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  3. The Translator

    36 publications · 1.4K citations

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  4. Journal of Biblical Literature

    SBL · 32 publications · 1.7K citations

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  5. The Modern Language Review

    38 publications · 5.1K citations

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See also

Literary Translation

Core Methods

Translation Challenges

Stylistic Features

Evaluation

Text Genres