After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation
- ISBN-10
- 0192880934
- ISBN-13
- 9780192880932
- Series
- After Babel
- Category
- Hermeneutics
- Pages
- 538
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- George Steiner
Description
A study of the theory and processes of language translation since the eighteenth century.
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