The Situatedness of Translation Studies

Luc van Doorslaer, professor at the universities of Tartu, Leuven and Stellenbosch, has published widely on Translation Studies, especially in relation to journalism, imagology and institutionalization. He is also Vice President of EST (European Society of Translation Studies). Ton Naaijkens is full professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands for German Literature and Translation Studies. In his publications, he focuses on translation history, translation criticism and more generally on cultural transfer between the Dutch and German-speaking areas.

Contents

Notes on Contributors



1 Temporal and Geographical Extensions in Translation Studies. Explaining the Background

 Luc van Doorslaer and Ton Naaijkens



part 1: Theorizing the Concept, the Object and the Discipline

2 Approaches to a Historiography of Translation Studies

 Yves Gambier



3 Historiosophy of Translation. Reflecting on Ukrainian Translation Conceptualizations—from Ivan Franko to Maksym Strikha

 Iryna Odrekhivska



4 Translation Seen through the Prism of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics

 Elin Sütiste and Silvi Salupere



5 Heeding the Call for Transfer Theory

 Shaul Levin



part 2: Localizing the Concept, the Object and the Discipline

6 Political Ideology in the Translation of Occidental Modernist Literature in China in the 1950s. The Case of French Modernist Literature in Shijie Wenxue

 Feng Cui



7 The Art and Craft of Translation. The Historical and Political Background of the Russian Translation Scholarship

 Natalia Kamovnikova



8 Travelling Theories in Translation Studies. Rediscovering Fedorov

 Anastasia Shakhova



9 Appropriation of Central Discourses vs. Local Tradition. Translation Studies in the Greek-Speaking World

 George Floros and Simos Grammenidis



10 Total Translation: From Catford to Torop

 Anne Lange



Index