Douglas Robinson
Author of Becoming a Translator: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation
About the Author
Douglas Robinson is Chair Professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University. He has been a freelance translator of technical and literary texts from Finnish to English since 1975. He is also one of the world's leading translation scholars, the author of The Dao of Translation (2015), Translation show more and Empire (2016), Critical Translation Studies (2017), and Translationality (2017), and editor of Western Translation Theory From Herodotus to Nietzsche (2015) and The Pushing Hands of Translation and its Theory (2016) (all published by Routledge). show less
Works by Douglas Robinson
Becoming a Translator: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation (1997) 90 copies, 1 review
Suomi-englanti-suomi : Gummeruksen suomi-englanti-suomi -sanakirja = Finnish-English-Finnish dictionary (1999) 8 copies, 1 review
What Is Translation?: Centrifugal Theories, Critical Interventions (Translation Studies, 4) (1997) 4 copies
Translation as a Form: A Centennial Commentary on Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator” (2022) 3 copies
Estrangement and the Somatics of Literature: Tolstoy, Shklovsky, Brecht (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) (2008) 3 copies
The pushing-hands of translation and its theory : in memoriam Martha Cheung, 1953-2013 (2016) 2 copies
Epply Family History 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1954-09-30
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Lafayette, Indiana, USA
- Occupations
- translator (Finnish to English)
- Organizations
- Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Hong Kong Baptist University
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Suomi-englanti-suomi sanakirja by Ilkka Rekiaro
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