The Poetics of Translation : History, Theory, Practice /
Willis Barnstone.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c1993.
- x, 302 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index.
Explores the history and theory of literary translation as an art form. Arguing that literary translation goes beyond the transfer of linguistic information, the book emphasizes that imaginative originality resides as much in the translation as in the source text.