Lawrence Venuti quotes
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“General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in many parts of the world and is clearly destined to continue developing well into the twenty-first century. Translation studies brings together work in a wide variety of fields, including linguistics, literary study, history, anthropology, psychology, and economics. This series of books will reflect the breadth of work in translation studies and will enable readers to share in the exciting new developments that are taking place at the present time.”
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“Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an act of ethnocentric violence by uprooting the text from the language and culture that gave it life. Translating into current, standard English at once conceals that violence and homogenizes foreign cultures,”
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“Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.”
-- Lawrence Venuti
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“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”
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“As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.”
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“Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.”
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“Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'”
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