Translation practices : through language to culture /

Table Of Contents:
Editors' Preface 9(2)
Introduction 11(6)

Manfred Pfister

LANGUAGE AS MEANS

The European Lending Library: Borrowing, Translating, and Returning Texts 17(14)

Lynne Long

Translating Intensifiers: (Non-) Equivalences Across English and Italian 31(16)

Silvia Cacchiani

The Coining of Italian Phraseological Units Through the Translation of Analogous English Phrases 47(18)

Stephen Coffey

Difficulty of Slang Translation 65(20)

Elisa Mattiello

Translating Humour: The Case of Stefano Benni 85(14)

Monica Boria

Translating Characterization: Dario Fo's Morte accidentale Travels to Britain 99(16)

Sonia Cunico

Translating `America' in 90s Italian Fiction 115(16)

Kate Litherland

CULTURE AS TARGET

La Bible d' Amiens: Translation and Transformation 131(14)

Emily Eells

Translating Desire: Ovid and Three Romantic Poets 145(8)

Philip Shaw

`She Rises Anew in my Words': Translating Sainthood in Michele Roberts's Impossible Saints 153(14)

Luanda Stannard

LANGUAGES OF CULTURE

Playing Around Cultural Faultlines: The Impact of Modern Translations for the Stages on Perceptions of Ancient Greek Drama 167(18)

Lorna Hardwick

John/Giovanni Florio: The Translator as Go-Between 185(18)

Manfred Pfister

`Paring His Fingernails'? The Textual Editor as Translator 203(8)

Ashley Chantler

Translating the Self: The Alias, Alas! 211(12)

Dave Postles

The New Italian Landscape: Between Ghirri's Photography and Celati's Fiction 223(18)

Marina Spunta

APPENDIX

Translating Dacia; Two Poems 241(10)

David Platzer
Bibliography 251(26)
Notes on Contributors 277