Fotini Apostolou

List of John Benjamins publications in which Fotini Apostolou is involved.

Articles

Apostolou, Fotini 2014 Walter Benjamin revisited: A literary reading in Todd Hasak-Lowy’s short story “The Task of this Translator” Transfiction: Research into the realities of translation fiction, Kaindl, Klaus and Karlheinz Spitzl (eds.), pp. 69–86 | Article

Apostolou, Fotini 2009 Mediation, manipulation, empowerment: Celebrating the complexity of the interpreter’s role Interpreting 11:1, pp. 1–19 | Article

This paper attempts a reading of the interpreter’s social and cultural role through a return to origins, to the ancient Greek god Hermes, who was, among other things, the mediator between gods and humans. Hermes’s ambivalent position and nature — conveying and at the same time manipulating the… read more