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Boase-Beier marshalls and interprets a vast body of translation theory with an admirable and luminous pragmatism offering excellent examples and a very clear sense of the options open to the contemporary translator. --Sanford Lakoff 'The ideal introduction to the study of literary translation. Completely at home in modern stylistics and cognitive science as well as in literary theory and translation studies, Jean Boase-Beier writes lucidly and authoritatively about complex issues. While the numerous and diverse examples make this a disarmingly accessible book, it addresses fundamental questions of meaning, form and interpretation. Enjoyment and instruction guaranteed.'--Sanford Lakoff

""Boase-Beier marshalls and interprets a vast body of translation theory with an admirable and luminous pragmatism offering excellent examples and a very clear sense of the options open to the contemporary translator."" -- Tim Parks, Novelist, Translator ‘The ideal introduction to the study of literary translation. Completely at home in modern stylistics and cognitive science as well as in literary theory and translation studies, Jean Boase-Beier writes lucidly and authoritatively about complex issues. While the numerous and diverse examples make this a disarmingly accessible book, it addresses fundamental questions of meaning, form and interpretation. Enjoyment and instruction guaranteed.' -- Theo Hermans, Professor of Dutch and Comparative Literature, University College London, UK

'The ideal introduction to the study of literary translation. Completely at home in modern stylistics and cognitive science as well as in literary theory and translation studies, Jean Boase-Beier writes lucidly and authoritatively about complex issues. While the numerous and diverse examples make this a disarmingly accessible book, it addresses fundamental questions of meaning, form and interpretation. Enjoyment and instruction guaranteed.'--,

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Jean Boase-Beier is Professor of Literature and Translation at the University of East Anglia, UK.

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