Translation As Metaphor - Rainer Guldin

In Todays Ever-changing Climate Of Disintegration And Recombination, Translation Has Become One Of The Essential Metaphors, If Not The Metaphor, Of Our Globalized World. Translation And Metaphor Is An Attempt To Draw A Comprehensive Map Of These, Overlapping Theoretical Territories And The Many Cross-disciplinary Movements They Imply. In Five Chapters, This Book Examines: The Main Metaphor Theories Developed In The West; The Way The Notion Of Metaphor Relates To The Concept Of Translation; Different Theoretical Perspectives On Metaphors Of Translation In Translation Studies; The Main Metaphors Developed To Describe Translation In The West And In The East; Spatial Metaphors Within Translation Studies, Cultural Studies And Postcolonial Theory; The Use Of The Metaphor Of Translation Across Psychoanalysis, Anthropology And Ethnography, Postcolonial Theory, History And Literature, Sociology, Media And Communication Theory, Medicine And Genetics.