Cover not available

In:Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 5
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
[Handbook of Translation Studies 5] 2021
► pp. 247–253

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload Book PDF
EPUB logo with download linkDownload Book EPUB
authorization required

World literature and translation

 | University of Santiago de Compostela
Published online: 16 September 2021
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/hts.5.wor2
Article outline
  • 1.Translation as world literature
  • 2.Translation for world literature
    • 2.1Born-translated
    • 2.2Untranslatability
  • References
  • Further essential reading
References (21)
References
Apter, Emily. 2013. Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability. London: Verso.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Auerbach, Erich. 2003. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, trans. by Willard D. Trask. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Cassin, Barbara et al. 2014. “Introduction.” In Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, ed. by Barbara Cassin, translation ed. by Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, and Michael Wood, trans. by Steven Rendall : xvii–xx. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Damrosch, David. 2003. What Is World Literature? Princeton: Princeton University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
David, Jérôme. 2013. “The Four Genealogies of World Literature”, trans. by Mary Claypool. In Approaches to World Literature, ed. by Joachim Küpper, 13–26. [Berlin]: Akademie. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Domínguez, César. 2019. “Gualterio Escoto – A Writer across World-Literatures.” In Translation and World Literature, ed. by Susan Bassnett, 75–91. London: Routledge.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Even-Zohar, Itamar. 1990a. “Polysystem Theory.” Poetics Today 11 (1): 9–26. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1990b. “The Position of Translated Literature within the Literary Polysystem.” Poetics Today 11 (1): 45–51. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Heilbron, Johan, and Gisèle Sapiro. 2007. “Outline for a Sociology of Translation. Current Issues and Future Prospects.” In Constructing a Sociology of Translation, ed. by Michaela Wolf, and Alexandra Fukari, 93–107. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Moretti, Franco. 2013. Distant Reading. London: Verso.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Purdy, Daniel. 2014. “Goethe, Rémusat and the Chinese Novel: Translation and the Circulation of World Literature.” In German Literature as World Literature, ed. by Thomas O. Beebee, 43–60. New York: Bloosmbury.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. 2003. Death of a Discipline. New York: Columbia University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Thomsen, Mads Rosendahl. 2008. Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literatures. London: Continuum.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Venuti, Lawrence. 2012. “World Literature and Translation Studies.” In The Routledge Companion to World Literature, ed. by Theo D’haen, David Damrosch, and Djelal Kadir, 180–193. London: Routledge.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2019. Contra Instrumentalism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Walkowitz, Rebecca L. 2015. Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature. New York: Columbia University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Further essential reading
Apter, Emily. 2006. The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Bassnett, Susan. 2019. Translation and World Literature. London: Routledge.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Casanova, Pascale. 2004. The World Republic of Letters, trans. by M. B. DeBevoise. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
D’haen, Theo. 2012. The Routledge Concise History of World Literature. London: Routledge.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Helgesson, Stefan. 2018. “Translation and the Circuits of World Literature.” In The Cambridge Companion to World Literature, ed. by Ben Etherington, and Jarad Zimbler, 85–99. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Cited by (1)

Cited by one other publication

Roig-Sanz, Diana
2022. Global translation history. Translation in Society 1:2 ► pp. 131 ff. DOI logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 11 december 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue