The present volume represents the results of ideas put forward by
specialists of literature, linguistics and translation studies at
the Institution of Translation in Europe conference held at the
University of Provence in June/July 2006. Its aim is to investigate
how English-language literary works have been translated, with the
focus primarily on French, and how they have been disseminated in
Europe throughout a period going as far back as the
Renaissance.Exactly how were translations carried out and with
whose support? Which official institutions were involved? What were
the translators' intentions? How 'faithful' were translations with
regard to source texts? What kind of linguistic and literary
difficulties were involved in the translations?These are just some
of the questions that the present volume aims to answer. It
attempts to give an overview which covers a variety of aspects on
the complex task of making suitable translations available to the
European public. The result, however, is that translations have
often been portrayed in quite a different light to the original...
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