Transnational image building: Linking up translation studies, reception studies and imagology

Gentile, Paola; Kovács, Fruzsina; van der Watt, Marike

doi:10.1075/ts.00029.int

Introduction published In: Transnational Image Building: Linking up Translation Studies, Reception Studies and Imagology
Edited by Paola Gentile, Fruzsina Kovács and Marike van der Watt
[Translation Spaces 10:1] 2021
► pp. 1–4

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Introduction

Transnational image building

Linking up translation studies, reception studies and imagology

Paola Gentile | University of Trieste | University of Namur

Fruzsina Kovács | Pázmány Péter Catholic University

Marike van der Watt | Stellenbosch University | KU Leuven

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Published online: 30 July 2021

https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.00029.int

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