Douglas Robinson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Douglas Robinson is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0924-1884 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9986
Titles
Questions for Translation Studies
Douglas Robinson
This is a book in the classical Quaestiones genre, like the Tusculanae Quaestiones (“Tusculan questions”) of Cicero (around 45 BCE) and the Quæstiones disputatæ de Veritate (“disputed questions on truth”) of St. Thomas Aquinas (1256-1259). It seeks to ask seven series of questions about key… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 162] 2023. v, 273 pp.
Translation and the Problem of Sway
Douglas Robinson
In Translation and the Problem of Sway Douglas Robinson offers the concept of "sway" to bring together discussion of two translational phenomena that have traditionally been considered in isolation, i.e. norms and errors: norms as ideological pressures to conform to the source text, and deviations… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 92] 2011. xiv, 227 pp.
2023 Walter Benjamin as translator as John Henry: Competing with the machine Literary Translation in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Its Future Prospects, Ning, Wang and Wang Hongtao (eds.), pp. 499–528 | Article
The article invokes John Henry’s fatal competition with the rock-driving machine, a legendary exemplar of resistance to automation, as a speculative analogue of Walter Benjamin’s 1923 essay “Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers,” read as a metaphysical attempt to develop a workable alternative to the… read more
2020 Reframing translational norm theory through 4EA cognition Translation, Cognition & Behavior 3:1, pp. 122–142 | Article
Norm theory was invented in 1986, by Daniel Kahneman and Dale T. Miller, as a decision-science subdiscipline of psychology, but with close connections with emerging embodied, embedded, enactive, extended and affective (4EA) cognitive science. Notably, they gave affective response a key role in… read more
2018 Chapter 1.5. The sacred and taboo A History of Modern Translation Knowledge: Sources, concepts, effects, D’hulst, Lieven and Yves Gambier (eds.), pp. 57–59 | Chapter
2017 What kind of literature is a literary translation? Target 29:3, pp. 440–463 | Article
This paper is a kind of manifesto for a new conception of literary translation as a unique literary genre that is imitative but qualitatively different from, and not necessarily worse than, the model it imitates. It explores this possibility by first interrogating Gérard Genette’s model of… read more
2006 Translation and the nationalist/migrant double bind Translation and Interpreting Studies 1:1, pp. 110–123 | Article
Using an expanded version of Gregory Bateson’s model of the double-bind, the article explores conflicting ideological norms governing the translator’s loyalties to countries, cultures, and languages through a series of doubly-bound commands.
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2006 Proprioception of the body politic: "Translation as phantom limb" revisited Translation and Interpreting Studies 1:2, pp. 43–71 | Article
Revising the author's 1996 argument in "Translation as Phantom Limb," the article argues that the proprioceptive system, a proprioception of the body politic, which controls the phantom limb phenomenon, has a collective extension that organizes group behavior--and that translation is in essence an… read more
1998 Kugelmass, translator: (Some thoughts on translation and its teaching) Rimbaud's Rainbow: Literary translation in higher education, Bush, Peter and Kirsten Malmkjær (eds.), pp. 47–62 | Article