Translation as Metaphor

Rainer Guldin is Lecturer for German Language and Culture at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano (Switzerland). His publications include Political Landscapes: On the Relationship between Space and National Identity (2014) and The Language of the Sky: A History of the Clouds (2006).

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroductionI. Metaphor and Its Relationship to TranslationII. Metaphors for TranslationIII. From Spatial Metaphors of Translation to Translation as a Spatial MetaphorIV. Translation as Metaphor in Psychoanalysis, Anthropology and Ethnography, Postcolonial Theory, History and Literature V. Translation as Metaphor in Sociology, Media and Communication Theory, Medicine, Genetics and Interdisciplinary Exchanges ConclusionReferences

'Rainer Guldin’s Translation as Metaphor admirably fills a pressing need in our knowledge of changes in the humanities and social sciences over the past few decades, focusing on how translation functions as a metaphor in a wide variety of disciplines. A must read for anyone who wants to understand how the way in which we know our new globalized world is being transformed.' James St. André, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China'Translation as Metaphor offers an absorbing account of the ways in which notions of translation and metaphor have informed each other across a very broad range of disciplines from psychoanalysis to genetics. Rainer Guldin offers a bold and lucid demonstration of how to understand translation as metaphor is to understand fundamental aspects of our contemporary condition.' Michael Cronin, Dublin City University, Ireland