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In:The Fictions of Translation
Edited by Judith Woodsworth
[Benjamins Translation Library 139] 2018
► pp. 199–214

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Chapter 12
Pretending not to be original

Pseudotranslations and their functions

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Published online: 14 February 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.139.12str
Article outline
  • Pseudotranslation in translation studies
  • Christoph Martin Wieland: Der goldne Spiegel (1772/1794)
  • José Carlos Somoza: La caverna de las ideas (2000)
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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