A Handbook of Translation Studies

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Like criticism, translation is always a text about a text and hence it is a metatext. We translate by intuition. There is no 'Science of Translating' though there are scientific theories of translation. In this book, the author has made a thorough analysis of various aspects of Translation Studies-both in the East and the West. Apart from making a background study of Translation, he has analysed Translation as Creative Writing, as Linguistic Bridge-Building and as Nation Building. The author has devoted a chapter each to the important subjects: Theory and Practice of Translation: The Indian Context, Comparative Literature and Translation Studies: A Correlation, The Role of the Translator, A Critique of Translation Theories and above all, the place of Translation in the Twenty-first Century in the Global context. This is an incisive and well researched book on Translation Studies in our country.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bijay Kumar Das

Dr. Vijay Kumar Das, M.A., Ph.D. is presently engaged in his post-doctoral research. He was with the P.G Department of English, Ravenshaw College, Cuttack and Khallikote College, Berhampur. Dr. Das has published a number of research papers and books on English Literature and Indian English Literature. He has made a large number of critical studies of poetry which have been published as books, besides several well researched articles in eminent publications. He has published research papers on a number of famous Western and Indian poets. Dr. Das has contributed to the Encyclopaedia of World Literature in the 20th Century (New York).