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Exophony : voyages outside the mother tongue / by Tawada, Yōko,1960-author.(CARDINAL)683548; Hofmann-Kuroda, Lisa,translator.(CARDINAL)872745;
"Yoko Tawada's first essay collection in English presents an electrifying new side of the National Book Award-winner as she dives deep into her lifelong fascination with cross-hybridizing languages"--Back cover.
Subjects: Essays.; Travel writing.; Language and languages.; Multilingual persons.; Linguistics.; Translating and interpreting.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Interpreter / by Orr, Tamra.(CARDINAL)345748;
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.Helping people talk to each other -- Off to work! -- Getting trained, getting certified -- Into the future.Describes what interpreters do, where they work, the skills they use, and how to get into the profession.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Translating and interpreting; Translators;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Lines around China / by Qiu, Xiaolong,1953-(CARDINAL)682295;
Subjects: Poetry.; Chinese Americans; Translating and interpreting;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fifty sounds : a memoir of language, learning, and longing / by Barton, Polly(Translator),author.(CARDINAL)839012;
Includes bibliographical references."Fifty Sounds is a genre-defying meditation on language from an electric new voice. When Polly Barton moved to a remote island in Japan at twenty-one, she did not anticipate the total sensory bombardment: "It is a possession, a bedevilment, a physical takeover." Divided into fifty onomatopoeic Japanese phrases, this elegantly written and deeply introspective memoir recounts her path to grasping the basics and becoming not only a literary translator but fluent in one of the most difficult vernaculars in the world. From min-min, the sound of air screaming, to hi'sori, the sound of harboring masochist tendencies, Barton renders these foreign sounds to reflect on the meaning of being an outsider, cultural conformity, and even the transformative philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. A classic in the making, Fifty Sounds unearths the distinctly human act of learning to communicate and think in a new way"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Barton, Polly (Translator); Translating and interpreting.; Japanese language.; Translators;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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The Written World And The Unwritten World : essays / by Calvino, Italo,author.(CARDINAL)147509; Goldstein, Ann,1949-translator.(CARDINAL)637267;
Includes bibliographical references.Available in English for the first time, a collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of this great Italian master's approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature.
Subjects: Essays.; Literary criticism.; Calvino, Italo; Italian literature; Translating and interpreting.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Where have you been? : selected essays / by Hofmann, Michael,1957 August 25-(CARDINAL)431736;
Bishop/Lowell correspondence -- Robert Frost and Edward Thomas -- Weldon Kees -- John Berryman -- Ian Hamilton -- James Schuyler -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Robert Lowell -- Frederick Seidel -- Ted Hughes -- "Remembering Teheran" -- Heaney's haiku -- Basil Bunting -- W.S. Graham -- Zbigniew Herbert -- Adam Zagajewski -- Les Murray -- Australian poets -- Karen Solie -- "Sharp biscuit": some thoughts on translating -- Gottfried Benn -- Hans Magnus Enzensberger -- Max Beckmann -- The passenger -- Kurt Schwitters -- Arthur Schnitzler -- Thomas Bernhard -- Günter Grass -- Stefan Zweig -- Robert Walser.A collection of essays on poetry and translation from literary critic Michael Hofmann.
Subjects: Essays.; Poetry; Poetry; Poetics.; Translating and interpreting.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The extinction of Irena Rey : a novel / by Croft, Jennifer(Translator),author.(CARDINAL)559276;
From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their arrival, Irena disappears without a trace. The translators, who hail from eight different countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author, begin to investigate where she may have gone while proceeding with work on her masterpiece. They explore this ancient wooded refuge with its intoxicating slime molds and lichens and study her exotic belongings and layered texts for clues. But doing so reveals secrets-and deceptions-of Irena Rey's that they are utterly unprepared for. Forced to face their differences as they grow increasingly paranoid in this fever dream of isolation and obsession, soon the translators are tangled up in a web of rivalries and desire, threatening not only their work but the fate of their beloved author herself. This hilarious, thought-provoking debut novel is a brilliant examination of art, celebrity, the natural world, and the power of language. It is an unforgettable, unputdownable adventure with a small but global cast of characters shaken by the shocks of love, destruction, and creation in one of Europe's last great wildernesses.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Translating and interpreting; Missing persons; Translators; Authors;
Available copies: 40 / Total copies: 45
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Foreign tongue : a novel of life and love in Paris / by Marsot, Vanina.(CARDINAL)561134;
Subjects: Fiction.; Americans; Translating and interpreting; Young women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Lost in translation: an illustrated compendium of untranslatable words from around the world / by Sanders, Ella Frances.(CARDINAL)407033;
Subjects: Language and languages; Translating and interpreting.; Picture-writing.; Visual communication.; Semiotics.; Iconicity (Linguistics);
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Translating myself and others / by Lahiri, Jhumpa,author.(CARDINAL)654182;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-189) and index."In 2016, the novelist Jhumpa Lahiri published In Other Words, the story of her quest to learn Italian, which involved moving with her family to Italy to immerse herself fully in her adopted language. The book builds on that account through eight essays that reflect her early career as a translator. One essay uses her teaching of the Echo and Narcissus myth to reflect on the meaning of translation; another describes her decision to translate her own recent novel from Italian, the language in which she composed and first published it, into English; another addresses the question "Why Italian?," in which she reflects on what attracts her to the language and the reactions she has received from native speakers. Three of the pieces are introductions to novels by Domenico Starnone that she has translated from Italian into English for Europa Editions: in each, she describes the particular challenges and pleasures of translation from different angles. The book will also include a brief preface to frame the book, and an epilogue on what she sees as the next chapter in her life as a translator, a long-term project to translate Ovid's Metamorphoses."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Essays.; Lahiri, Jhumpa.; Self-translation.; Translating and interpreting.; Translators; Women translators;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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