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Contents General Editor's Preface Preface to the revised edition Acknowledgements Introduction: 1. Central Issues: Language and culture; Types of translation; Decoding and recoding; Problems of equivalence; Loss and gain; Untranslatability; Science or 'secondary activity'? 2. History of Translation Theory: Problems of 'period study'; The Romans' Bible translation; Education and the vernacular; Early theorists; The Renaissance; The seventeenth century; The eighteenth century; Romanticism; Post-Romanticism; The Victorians; Archaizing; The Twentieth century. 3. Specific Problems of Literary Translation: Structures; Poetry and translation; Translating Prose; Translating dramatic texts. Conclusion Notes Select Biliography Appendix: The original text of The Seafarer Index