Foreign words translator-authors in the age of Goethe /

Bernofsky, Susan.

Foreign words translator-authors in the age of Goethe / [electronic resource] : Susan Bernofsky. - Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2005. - xii, 239 p. - Kritik : German literary theory and cultural studies . - Kritik (Detroit, Mich.) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From Homer to Shakespeare: the rise of service translation in the late eighteenth century -- The translation as a Doppelganger: Amphitryon by Moliere and Kleist -- Holderlin as translator: the perils of interpretation -- The paradox of the translator: Goethe and Diderot -- Coda: from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780814337356 (electronic bk.)




Kleist, Heinrich von, 1777-1811.
Holderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.


Translating and interpreting--History--Germany--18th century.
Translating and interpreting--History--Germany--19th century.
Translating and interpreting--Philosophy.
Literature--Translations into German--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PT289 / .B423 2005

418/.02/094309033