Jean Boase-Beier is Professor of Literature and Translation at the University of East Anglia, UK.

"Boase-Beier marshalls and interprets a vast body of translation theory with an admirable and luminous pragmatism offering excellent examples and a very clear sense of the options open to the contemporary translator."

• Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I: Translation, text, mind and context; 1. What does translation involve?; 2. Possible and impossible in translation; 3. Faithfulness, allegiance, and creativity; 4. The Translated text; 5. Theories and practices; Part II: A Poetics of Translation; 6. Literary translation as the translation of mind; 7. Translating the special shape of poems; 8. Ambiguity, mind-games and searches; 9. Thinking and doing translation; Bibliography; Index.

Jean Boase-Beier is Professor of Literature and Translation at the University of East Anglia, UK.

"Boase-Beier marshalls and interprets a vast body of translation theory with an admirable and luminous pragmatism offering excellent examples and a very clear sense of the options open to the contemporary translator."

• Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I: Translation, text, mind and context; 1. What does translation involve?; 2. Possible and impossible in translation; 3. Faithfulness, allegiance, and creativity; 4. The Translated text; 5. Theories and practices; Part II: A Poetics of Translation; 6. Literary translation as the translation of mind; 7. Translating the special shape of poems; 8. Ambiguity, mind-games and searches; 9. Thinking and doing translation; Bibliography; Index.

Jean Boase-Beier is Professor of Literature and Translation at the University of East Anglia, UK.

"Boase-Beier marshalls and interprets a vast body of translation theory with an admirable and luminous pragmatism offering excellent examples and a very clear sense of the options open to the contemporary translator."

• Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I: Translation, text, mind and context; 1. What does translation involve?; 2. Possible and impossible in translation; 3. Faithfulness, allegiance, and creativity; 4. The Translated text; 5. Theories and practices; Part II: A Poetics of Translation; 6. Literary translation as the translation of mind; 7. Translating the special shape of poems; 8. Ambiguity, mind-games and searches; 9. Thinking and doing translation; Bibliography; Index.