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Lawrence Venuti. Translation Changes Everything: Theory and Practice. New York. Routledge. 2013. isbn 9780415696296
Translation Changes Everything contains fourteen essays by Lawrence Venuti, professor of English at Temple University, one of the most influential theorists in translation studies. Except for one previously unpublished essay, the remaining essays have all been published since 2000 in journals and in edited books. Although each is independent, the essays cohere as a collection and project the trajectory of Venuti's thinking as he deals with a variety of wideranging issues in translation.
Venuti agrees with other theorists that translation is not merely a semantic transference of meaning from one language to another. The act...