• ISBN13: 9788171567249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: April 3, 1998
• Pages: 104
• Original Price: INR 250.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 240 grams

Like criticism, translation is always a text about a text and hence it is a metatext. We translate by intuition. There is no ‘Science of translating’ though there are scientific theories of translation. In this book, Dr. B.K. Das has made a thorough analysis of various aspects of Translation Studies — both in the East and the West. Apart from making a background study of Translation, Dr. Das has discussed the problems as well as the limits of Translation. He has analysed Translation as Creative Writing, as Linguistic-Bridge Building and above all, as Nation Building. This is a highly useful and well-researched book on Translation Studies in our Country.

Dr. Bijay Kumar Das has published a number of books and research papers on English literature, Indian English Literature, Commonwealth Literature, Translation and Literary Criticism. His books include, A Study of Sarojini Naidu’s Poetry (1977), Modern Indo-English Poetry (1982), Critical Perspectives on Relationship and Latter Day Psalms (1986), Modern Indian English Poetry (1992), The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra (1992), Aspects of Twentieth Century Criticism (1992), Critical Essays on Poetry (1993), A Reader’s Guide to Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets (1993), Perspectives on Indian English Poetry Criticism (1993), Aspects of Commonwealth Literature (1995), The Horizon of Nissim Ezekiel’s Poetry (1995) and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (1995). He has edited two books of criticism : Perspectives on the Poetry of R. Parthasarathy (1983) and Contemporary Indo-English Poetry (1986). He has published research papers on Shakespeare, Keats, F.R. Leavis, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Nissim Ezekiel, Kamala Das, A.K. Ramanujan, R. Parthasarathy, G.S. Sharat Chandra, Jayanta Mahapatra, E.M. Forster, Derek Walcott. Derrida, Translation, Modern Poetry and Criticism. He has contributed to the Encyclopaedia of World Literature in the 20th Century (New York). He is also a creative writer and has published a book of verse Quondam Beloved (1989) in English. At present, he teaches English at Bhadrak College, Bhadrak (Orissa).

• I. Introduction
• II. The Diachronic Study of Translation
• III. Kinds of Translation
• IV. Problems of Translation
• V. Translation as Creative Writing
• VI. Translation as Linguistic Bridge-Building
• VII. Translation as Nation Building
• VIII. The Limits of Translation
• IX. Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index