Companion to Translation Studies

Piotr Kuhiwczak is Associate Professor at the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Warwick. He has published extensively in the fields of comparative literature, cultural studies and translation studies, and is co-author of Successful Polish-English Translation: Tricks of the Trade (3rd revised edn 2005).Karin Littau is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. Her work on translation and film adaptation has appeared in a number of books and journals, among them MLN, Dedalus, and TTR. She is the author of Theories of Reading. Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania (2006).

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction1. Culture and Translation - Susan Bassnett 2. Philosophy and Translation - Anthony Pym 3. Linguistics and Translation - Gunilla Anderman 4. History and Translation - Lynne Long 5. Literary Translation - Theo Hermans 6. Gender and Translation - Luise von Flotow 7. Screen Translation - Eithne O’Connell 8. Theatre and Opera Translation - Mary Snell-Hornby 9. Politics and Translation – Christina Schäffner BibliographyIndex

"This excellent critical companion will be welcomed by students and established scholars alike. Organised thematically, it presents different strands and schools of thought in the context of their contributions to particular shared concerns, thus offering an ideal springboard for further reading in both translation studies and neighbouring disciplines."