Lawrence Venuti
Biographic Data
| ID | 363350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence Venuti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence |
| FAMILY NAME | Venuti |
| SIGNATURE | VENUTI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University, Philadelphia, United States of America |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Human Translator versus the Machine: Algorithms of Interpretation
Machine translation has improved to such an extent that a time can be predicted when most, if not all, translation will be performed by machine. Both translators and translation studies scholars have reacted to this development with questionable thinking about translation as well as human creativity. Definitions of creative translation generally assume an instrumentalist model: translation understood as the reproduction or transfer of an invarian…
Rethinking Translation: Discourse, Subjectivity, Ideology
Rethinking Translation aims to make the translator's activity more visible by engaging with recent developments in critical theory to study the discourses and institutions which determine the production, circulation and reception of translated texts. Animated by different varieties of Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism and poststructuralism and written in some cases by practising translators, this book constitutes a rethinking of translation that …
Rethinking Translation
Hijacking Translation: How Comp Lit Continues to Suppress Translated Texts
Despite the increased attention that translation has received in conjunction with the newly revived topic of “world literature,” translation research and practice continue to be marginal in comparative literature as the field has developed in the United States. The evidence for this marginality takes various forms, institutional and intellectual, including reports on the state of the field, the curricula of departments and programs of comparative…
Genealogies of Translation Theory: Jerome
This article offers a historical examination and ideological critique of Jerome's famous Letter to Pammachius (395 CE), exploring its complex relations to the Roman translation tradition, on the one hand, and to an emerging Christian tradition, on the other hand, with examples taken from the New Testament and Jerome's own translating. Jerome's letter is the most influential statement of what can be called the instrumental model of translation, th…
Self-Portrait
Catalan Poetry: Part 2 Anna Montero Anna Montero was born in Logrono in the Rioja in 1954. She studied French at the University of Valencia and now teaches at a secondary school. She has written seven books of poetry, including com si tornes d'enlloc (1999; as ifyou had returned from nowhere) and serenitat de cercles (2004; serenity of circles), where the poems translated here were published. She has also written Catalan translations of several F…
Blind, Blind Star
Maria-Merce Marqal Born in Ivarsd'Urgell, Maria-Merce Marcal (1952-98) studied classics at the Universit?t de Barcelona. Her six books of poetry include Cau de llunes(1977; Lunarlair), Bruixa de dol (1979; Witch of grief), and Ra? del cos (2000; The body's reason), the volumes fromwhich the present translations are drawn. She also wrote the novel La passi? segons Renee Vivien (1994; Passion according to Renee Vivien) and edited the anthology Pais…
Ricard Was a Lad
Catalan Poetry: Part 1 Miquel Bau^? Born in Felanitx on Mallorca, Miquel Bauca (1940-2005) resided in Barcelona. His eight books of poetry include Una bella historia (1961; A finestory) andElnoblejoc (1972;The noblegame), thesources of the present translations. He also wrote inventive prose works likeEl canvi (1998; The change), which combines narrative, essay, and aphorism inan alphabetical sequence. He later deployed this dictionary-like form i…
Gas, 1940
Catalan Poetry: Part 3 Ernest Farres Born in 1967 in Igualada, Ernest Farres isthe author of three books of poetry: Clavar-ne una al mall i I'altra a I'endusa (1996;Hitormiss), Mosquits (1998; Mosquitoes), and Edward Hopper (2006), which Graywolf Press will publish in English inOctober. He works as an editor on the weekly cultural supplement of the newspaper La Vanguardia. Gas, 1940 Dust rises as the car pulls toa stop at the fillingstation and t…
It's Finally Been Confirmed
It's finally been confirmed Camels can pass through the slender eye of a needle. With surprising ease they'vemet the challenge Christ hurled at them.Christ hadn't noticed how enormously skillful camels are. And the saddest thing is thattheyalone find total salvation and monopolize it,no one else. Once camels pass through thebody of theneedle, theystretchout, shake off thedust, clean theirhooves, crack their knuckles, call for a newspaper, coffee,…
The Madman
Andreu Vidal Andreu Vidal (1959-98) was born inPalma on Mallorca. Although trained as a draftsman, he published his firstbooks of poems at the age ofeighteen.Hiseightcollectionsinclude Llibre de lesvirtuts (1980;The bookofvirtues), Elsdie tranquils (1988;The calmdays), and L'animal que no existeix (1993; The animal that does not exist), the sources of the present translations. He also collaborated on a Catalan translation of Paul Celan's poetry (…
Necropsy
Andreu Vidal Andreu Vidal (1959-98) was born inPalma on Mallorca. Although trained as a draftsman, he published his firstbooks of poems at the age ofeighteen.Hiseightcollectionsinclude Llibre de lesvirtuts (1980;The bookofvirtues), Elsdie tranquils (1988;The calmdays), and L'animal que no existeix (1993; The animal that does not exist), the sources of the present translations. He also collaborated on a Catalan translation of Paul Celan's poetry (…
If One Afternoon
Catalan Poetry: Part 1 Miquel Bau^? Born in Felanitx on Mallorca, Miquel Bauca (1940-2005) resided in Barcelona. His eight books of poetry include Una bella historia (1961; A finestory) andElnoblejoc (1972;The noblegame), thesources of the present translations. He also wrote inventive prose works likeEl canvi (1998; The change), which combines narrative, essay, and aphorism inan alphabetical sequence. He later deployed this dictionary-like form i…
Essential Works of Catalan Literature
3 Essential Works of Catalan Literature Ramon Llull,Doctor llluminatus: A Ramon Llull Reader, ed. Anthony Bon ner, tr. Anthony Bonner & Eve Bonner (Princeton University Press, 1994). Poet and novelist, philosopher and theologian, the Mallorcan Ramon Llull (1232-1316) was the firstgreat writer in theCatalan language. This selection of his works contains his celebrated mystical text,The Book of theLover and theBeloved. Ausi?s March, Verse Translati…
I've Inhabited Your Skin
Catalan Poetry: Part 2 Anna Montero Anna Montero was born in Logrono in the Rioja in 1954. She studied French at the University of Valencia and now teaches at a secondary school. She has written seven books of poetry, including com si tornes d'enlloc (1999; as ifyou had returned from nowhere) and serenitat de cercles (2004; serenity of circles), where the poems translated here were published. She has also written Catalan translations of several F…
Afternoon Slowly Passes
Catalan Poetry: Part 2 Anna Montero Anna Montero was born in Logrono in the Rioja in 1954. She studied French at the University of Valencia and now teaches at a secondary school. She has written seven books of poetry, including com si tornes d'enlloc (1999; as ifyou had returned from nowhere) and serenitat de cercles (2004; serenity of circles), where the poems translated here were published. She has also written Catalan translations of several F…
The Monster
Francesc Parcerisas Francesc Parcerisas was born inBegues in 1944. His books of poetry include L'edat d'or (1983; The golden age), Foes d'octubre (1992; October fires), and Dos dies mes de sud (2006; Two more southern days). Among his many translations into Catalan and Spanish are Ezra Pound's Cantos and Seamus Heaney's The Haw Lantern. The poems translated here appear inhis volume Nature morta amb nens (Cuaderns Crema, 2000; Still life with chil…
Morning Sun, 1952
Catalan Poetry: Part 3 Ernest Farres Born in 1967 in Igualada, Ernest Farres isthe author of three books of poetry: Clavar-ne una al mall i I'altra a I'endusa (1996;Hitormiss), Mosquits (1998; Mosquitoes), and Edward Hopper (2006), which Graywolf Press will publish in English inOctober. He works as an editor on the weekly cultural supplement of the newspaper La Vanguardia. Gas, 1940 Dust rises as the car pulls toa stop at the fillingstation and t…
A Conversation with Francesc Parcerisas
Beat Generation and the youth counterculture. For us, the first generation born after the Spanish Civil War, it was an assertion of freedom. My poems were inspired by the Catalan Salvador Espriu and the Galician Celso Emilio Ferreiro but also by Pavese, Neruda, Hikmet. In the 1970s I felt a need to connect those interests with an avant-garde lit erary experience. I remember very clearly the book Renga by Octavio Paz, Jacques Roubaud, Edoar do San…
Glebe
Eva Baltasar Eva Baltasar was born inBarcelona in 1978 and now lives inGirona. She studied educational theory at the Universit?t de Barcelona and the Freie Universit?t in Berlin. Her publications include two books of poetry: Laia (2008), fromwhich the present translations are drawn, and At?viques feres (2009; Atavistic beasts). Glebe I stack up ears of corn all over your body without hurting even a single poppy. Span by span, I traceyour trails w…
Azbe
Andreu Vidal Andreu Vidal (1959-98) was born inPalma on Mallorca. Although trained as a draftsman, he published his firstbooks of poems at the age ofeighteen.Hiseightcollectionsinclude Llibre de lesvirtuts (1980;The bookofvirtues), Elsdie tranquils (1988;The calmdays), and L'animal que no existeix (1993; The animal that does not exist), the sources of the present translations. He also collaborated on a Catalan translation of Paul Celan's poetry (…
Wicker Hamper
Francesc Parcerisas Francesc Parcerisas was born inBegues in 1944. His books of poetry include L'edat d'or (1983; The golden age), Foes d'octubre (1992; October fires), and Dos dies mes de sud (2006; Two more southern days). Among his many translations into Catalan and Spanish are Ezra Pound's Cantos and Seamus Heaney's The Haw Lantern. The poems translated here appear inhis volume Nature morta amb nens (Cuaderns Crema, 2000; Still life with chil…
Road Trip
Francesc Parcerisas Francesc Parcerisas was born inBegues in 1944. His books of poetry include L'edat d'or (1983; The golden age), Foes d'octubre (1992; October fires), and Dos dies mes de sud (2006; Two more southern days). Among his many translations into Catalan and Spanish are Ezra Pound's Cantos and Seamus Heaney's The Haw Lantern. The poems translated here appear inhis volume Nature morta amb nens (Cuaderns Crema, 2000; Still life with chil…
Princess
Eva Baltasar Eva Baltasar was born inBarcelona in 1978 and now lives inGirona. She studied educational theory at the Universit?t de Barcelona and the Freie Universit?t in Berlin. Her publications include two books of poetry: Laia (2008), fromwhich the present translations are drawn, and At?viques feres (2009; Atavistic beasts). Glebe I stack up ears of corn all over your body without hurting even a single poppy. Span by span, I traceyour trails w…
Last Night
It's finally been confirmed Camels can pass through the slender eye of a needle. With surprising ease they'vemet the challenge Christ hurled at them.Christ hadn't noticed how enormously skillful camels are. And the saddest thing is thattheyalone find total salvation and monopolize it,no one else. Once camels pass through thebody of theneedle, theystretchout, shake off thedust, clean theirhooves, crack their knuckles, call for a newspaper, coffee,…
What Is a 'Relevant' Translation
Hijacking Translation: How Comp Lit Continues to Suppress Translated Texts
Despite the increased attention that translation has received in conjunction with the newly revived topic of “world literature,” translation research and practice continue to be marginal in comparative literature as the field has developed in the United States. The evidence for this marginality takes various forms, institutional and intellectual, including reports on the state of the field, the curricula of departments and programs of comparative…
Genealogies of Translation Theory: Jerome
This article offers a historical examination and ideological critique of Jerome's famous Letter to Pammachius (395 CE), exploring its complex relations to the Roman translation tradition, on the one hand, and to an emerging Christian tradition, on the other hand, with examples taken from the New Testament and Jerome's own translating. Jerome's letter is the most influential statement of what can be called the instrumental model of translation, th…
Translation, History, Narrative
Every stage in the production, circulation and reception of a translation is profoundly marked by its historical moment, tracing a history that is distinct from the history of the foreign text. The historical nature of translation is apparent in the succession of varying methods that define it within a single culture, not only standards of accuracy, but the interpretation of the conceptual categories on which that standard is based, not only disc…
Simpatico
An Italian Metaphysical: Angelo Lumelli
young writers cultivate an abstract, rather obscure poetry that combines philosophical speculation with strings of vivid, discontinuous images. Their writing makes considerable demands on the reader, requiring patience as well as aggressiveness, but given the crucial issues they engage, the difficulty seems inevitable. This new generation of Italian poets has devoted themselves to an examination of what is at stake in any intellectual enterprise.…
The Ideology of the Individual in Anglo-American Criticism: The Example of Coleridge and Eliot
In the wake of the post-structuralist attack on interpretation by such theorists as Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze, the function of criticism has been increasingly questioned, so that whatever its claims to contribute to the understanding of texts, it no longer enjoys its former privileged status. Far from being objective and innocent, criticism can now be seen as a transformative activity mediated by theoretical assumptions that make possibl…
The Text of Sidney's Arcadian World
Simpatico
The Scandals of Translation: Towards an ethics of difference
The Scandals of translation , The Scandals of translation , کتابخانه دیجیتال جندی شاپور اهواز
The Translation Studies Reader
What Is a 'Relevant' Translation
The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation
The Translator's Invisibility traces the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day. It shows how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the canon of foreign literatures in English, and investigates the cultural consequences of the domestic values which were simultaneously inscribed and masked in foreign texts during this period. Venuti locates alternative translation theories and practices in Bri…
Translating Derrida on Translation: Relevance and Disciplinary Resistance
This essay is an exploration of the theoretical and practical problems posed by translating Jacques Derrida's essay "What is a 'relevant' translation?" into English, given the peculiar marginality of translation in academic institutions, especially in the United States. Whereas cultural studies exhibits a theoreticism that strips translation of its material specificity, translation studies exhibits an empiricism that suppresses the philosophical …
Translation, History, Narrative
Every stage in the production, circulation and reception of a translation is profoundly marked by its historical moment, tracing a history that is distinct from the history of the foreign text. The historical nature of translation is apparent in the succession of varying methods that define it within a single culture, not only standards of accuracy, but the interpretation of the conceptual categories on which that standard is based, not only disc…
Adaptation, Translation, Critique
Translation theory advances thinking about film adaptation by enabling a more rigorous critical methodology. The relation between such second-order creations and their source materials is not communicative but hermeneutic, depending on the translator's or filmmaker's application of an interpretant. The hermeneutic relation can be seen not only as interpretive, fixing the form and meaning of the source materials, but as interrogative, exposing the…
Self-Portrait
Catalan Poetry: Part 2 Anna Montero Anna Montero was born in Logrono in the Rioja in 1954. She studied French at the University of Valencia and now teaches at a secondary school. She has written seven books of poetry, including com si tornes d'enlloc (1999; as ifyou had returned from nowhere) and serenitat de cercles (2004; serenity of circles), where the poems translated here were published. She has also written Catalan translations of several F…
Blind, Blind Star
Maria-Merce Marqal Born in Ivarsd'Urgell, Maria-Merce Marcal (1952-98) studied classics at the Universit?t de Barcelona. Her six books of poetry include Cau de llunes(1977; Lunarlair), Bruixa de dol (1979; Witch of grief), and Ra? del cos (2000; The body's reason), the volumes fromwhich the present translations are drawn. She also wrote the novel La passi? segons Renee Vivien (1994; Passion according to Renee Vivien) and edited the anthology Pais…
Ricard Was a Lad
Catalan Poetry: Part 1 Miquel Bau^? Born in Felanitx on Mallorca, Miquel Bauca (1940-2005) resided in Barcelona. His eight books of poetry include Una bella historia (1961; A finestory) andElnoblejoc (1972;The noblegame), thesources of the present translations. He also wrote inventive prose works likeEl canvi (1998; The change), which combines narrative, essay, and aphorism inan alphabetical sequence. He later deployed this dictionary-like form i…
Gas, 1940
Catalan Poetry: Part 3 Ernest Farres Born in 1967 in Igualada, Ernest Farres isthe author of three books of poetry: Clavar-ne una al mall i I'altra a I'endusa (1996;Hitormiss), Mosquits (1998; Mosquitoes), and Edward Hopper (2006), which Graywolf Press will publish in English inOctober. He works as an editor on the weekly cultural supplement of the newspaper La Vanguardia. Gas, 1940 Dust rises as the car pulls toa stop at the fillingstation and t…
It's Finally Been Confirmed
It's finally been confirmed Camels can pass through the slender eye of a needle. With surprising ease they'vemet the challenge Christ hurled at them.Christ hadn't noticed how enormously skillful camels are. And the saddest thing is thattheyalone find total salvation and monopolize it,no one else. Once camels pass through thebody of theneedle, theystretchout, shake off thedust, clean theirhooves, crack their knuckles, call for a newspaper, coffee,…
The Madman
Andreu Vidal Andreu Vidal (1959-98) was born inPalma on Mallorca. Although trained as a draftsman, he published his firstbooks of poems at the age ofeighteen.Hiseightcollectionsinclude Llibre de lesvirtuts (1980;The bookofvirtues), Elsdie tranquils (1988;The calmdays), and L'animal que no existeix (1993; The animal that does not exist), the sources of the present translations. He also collaborated on a Catalan translation of Paul Celan's poetry (…
Necropsy
Andreu Vidal Andreu Vidal (1959-98) was born inPalma on Mallorca. Although trained as a draftsman, he published his firstbooks of poems at the age ofeighteen.Hiseightcollectionsinclude Llibre de lesvirtuts (1980;The bookofvirtues), Elsdie tranquils (1988;The calmdays), and L'animal que no existeix (1993; The animal that does not exist), the sources of the present translations. He also collaborated on a Catalan translation of Paul Celan's poetry (…
If One Afternoon
Catalan Poetry: Part 1 Miquel Bau^? Born in Felanitx on Mallorca, Miquel Bauca (1940-2005) resided in Barcelona. His eight books of poetry include Una bella historia (1961; A finestory) andElnoblejoc (1972;The noblegame), thesources of the present translations. He also wrote inventive prose works likeEl canvi (1998; The change), which combines narrative, essay, and aphorism inan alphabetical sequence. He later deployed this dictionary-like form i…
Essential Works of Catalan Literature
3 Essential Works of Catalan Literature Ramon Llull,Doctor llluminatus: A Ramon Llull Reader, ed. Anthony Bon ner, tr. Anthony Bonner & Eve Bonner (Princeton University Press, 1994). Poet and novelist, philosopher and theologian, the Mallorcan Ramon Llull (1232-1316) was the firstgreat writer in theCatalan language. This selection of his works contains his celebrated mystical text,The Book of theLover and theBeloved. Ausi?s March, Verse Translati…
I've Inhabited Your Skin
Catalan Poetry: Part 2 Anna Montero Anna Montero was born in Logrono in the Rioja in 1954. She studied French at the University of Valencia and now teaches at a secondary school. She has written seven books of poetry, including com si tornes d'enlloc (1999; as ifyou had returned from nowhere) and serenitat de cercles (2004; serenity of circles), where the poems translated here were published. She has also written Catalan translations of several F…
Afternoon Slowly Passes
Catalan Poetry: Part 2 Anna Montero Anna Montero was born in Logrono in the Rioja in 1954. She studied French at the University of Valencia and now teaches at a secondary school. She has written seven books of poetry, including com si tornes d'enlloc (1999; as ifyou had returned from nowhere) and serenitat de cercles (2004; serenity of circles), where the poems translated here were published. She has also written Catalan translations of several F…
The Monster
Francesc Parcerisas Francesc Parcerisas was born inBegues in 1944. His books of poetry include L'edat d'or (1983; The golden age), Foes d'octubre (1992; October fires), and Dos dies mes de sud (2006; Two more southern days). Among his many translations into Catalan and Spanish are Ezra Pound's Cantos and Seamus Heaney's The Haw Lantern. The poems translated here appear inhis volume Nature morta amb nens (Cuaderns Crema, 2000; Still life with chil…
Morning Sun, 1952
Catalan Poetry: Part 3 Ernest Farres Born in 1967 in Igualada, Ernest Farres isthe author of three books of poetry: Clavar-ne una al mall i I'altra a I'endusa (1996;Hitormiss), Mosquits (1998; Mosquitoes), and Edward Hopper (2006), which Graywolf Press will publish in English inOctober. He works as an editor on the weekly cultural supplement of the newspaper La Vanguardia. Gas, 1940 Dust rises as the car pulls toa stop at the fillingstation and t…
A Conversation with Francesc Parcerisas
Beat Generation and the youth counterculture. For us, the first generation born after the Spanish Civil War, it was an assertion of freedom. My poems were inspired by the Catalan Salvador Espriu and the Galician Celso Emilio Ferreiro but also by Pavese, Neruda, Hikmet. In the 1970s I felt a need to connect those interests with an avant-garde lit erary experience. I remember very clearly the book Renga by Octavio Paz, Jacques Roubaud, Edoar do San…
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