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After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation
by Steiner, George
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0192121960
- ISBN 13
- 9780192121967
- Seller
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Oxford University Press, 1975 0192121960. First edition. VG. Hardback. No DW. No inscriptions or annotations. 507 pages including over 20 pages of index. 'After Babel' created a sensation on publication in 1975, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary theory. Dr. Steiner's is the first attempt, certainly since the late eighteenth century, at a systematic investigation of the phenomenology and processes of translation, and asks whether a theoretic model is, in fact, possible. George Steiner has been Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Universities of Geneva. and Oxford. He lives in Cambridge, England, where he has been Extraordinary Fellow at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge since 1969. His books include The Death of Tragedy, Language in Silence, In Bluebeard's Castle, and On Difficulty and Other Essays. He has written for The New Yorker for over thirty years, contributing over two hundred reviews. This is a heavy book which may require extra postage. .
Synopsis
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation is a 1975 linguistics book written by literary critic George Steiner. It was first published by Oxford University Press in the United Kingdom and deals with the "Babel problem" of multiple languages. After Babel is a comprehensive study of the subject of language and translation. It is both a controversial and seminal work that covers a great deal of new ground and has remained the most thorough book on this topic since its publication.
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1745
- Title
- After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation
- Author
- Steiner, George
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0192121960
- ISBN 13
- 9780192121967
- Publisher
- London: Oxford University Press, 1975 0192121960
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Language Translation Literary Theory Interpretation Semantics Poetry Philosophy Linguistics QSE
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David Edward Hellawell
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands
About David Edward Hellawell
Professor Emeritus now selling off the stock of a lifetime.
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