Theo Hermans
Biographic Data
| ID | 507123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theo Hermans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theo |
| FAMILY NAME | Hermans |
| SIGNATURE | HERMANS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bedford College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8436-2540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Norms of Translation
If we assume that translation serves a communicative purpose, some degree of coordination between the participants in the process—sender and receiver, ego and alter —will be necessary.
Descriptive Translation Studies
The academic discipline of translation studies is of relatively recent date.
Untranslatability, Entanglement and Understanding
This chapter suggests that a historical approach to the question of untranslatability may be more fruitful than theoretical speculation. The practical need for translation in particular circumstances cuts across misgivings about translatability even in cases of early contacts between very different languages and cultures. These encounters initiate the process of creating cross-lingual equivalences thanks to, not despite, the entanglement of the p…
Miracles in translation: L ipsius, O ur L ady of H alle and two D utch translations
In 1604 the F lemish humanist J ustus L ipsius (1547–1606) published a Latin treatise on miracles said to have happened on account of the intercession of the V irgin M ary in H alle, a small town near B russels. There are two D utch translations of L ipsius' book, one by A lbert van O osterwijck, published in D elft in 1605, the other by P hilips N uman, published in B russels in 1607. The translations are very similar but they are very different…
The Manipulation of Literature (Routledge Revivals): Studies in Literary Translation
Manipulation of Literature: Studies in Literary Translation
Images of Translation
The paradoxical relationship between translation and imitation may be illustrated with reference to some treatises and handbooks on the art of poetry from mid-sixteenth-century France. Peletier's metaphors of submission and of digging up valuable treasures, for example, are commonplace in the sixteenth-century discourse on translation, but they are not normally part of the metalanguage of imitation, while Du Bellay's images of digestion and trans…
Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679): Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age
Jan Bloemendal and Frans-Willem Korsten, eds. Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679): Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age. Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe 1. Leiden: Brill, 2012. xi + 652 pp. $229. ISBN: 978–90–04–21753–9. - Volume 66 Issue 1
Übersetzung: Ein internationales Handbuch zur Übersetzungsforschung
This international encyclopedia documents and surveys, for the first time, the entire complex of translation as well as the operations and phenomena associated with it. Structured along systematic, historical and geographic lines, it offers a comprehensive and critical account of the current state of knowledge and of international research. The Encyclopedia (1) offers an overview of the different types and branches of translation studies; (2) cov…
Translation, equivalence and intertextuality
(2003). Translation, equivalence and intertextuality. Wasafiri: Vol. 18, No. 40, pp. 39-41
Cross-cultural translation studies as thick translation
Taking its cue from two specific examples (particular terms used by Aristotle and by Yan Fu) the first part of this article rehearses the hermeneutic question of cross-cultural understanding but gears the discussion to the specific issues of the complicity of translation in cross-cultural understanding, whether in an historical or an anthropological sense, and of the need to inspect critically the vocabulary used in the exercise. The second part …
The Bookshop of the World: The Role of the Low Countries in the Book-Trade, 1473-1941
Proceedings of a Conference held in London, 15-17 september 1999, organized by The Association for Low Countries Studies, University College London, Centre for Dutch and Flemish Culture, The British Library, Dutch and Flemish section, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Twenty-five papers by experts in their particular period or area were selected for publication. Covering almost five centuries, they represent a wholly modern approach…
Norms and the Determination of Translation: A Theoretical Framework
Some Concluding Comments on the Debates and the Responses
Translation and Normativity
The article has two main aims: to illustrate the productive potential of the norms concept as an analytical tool in studying translations, and to explore the implications of the concept for the way we speak about translation. Part one takes up an historical case (Adrianus de Buck translating Boethius in 1653) and uses the concept of norms to inquire into the translator's choices. It is suggested that sociological concepts deployed by Bourdieu and…
The Translator's Voice in Translated Narrative
When we read translated narrative, the original Narrator's voice is not the only which comes to us. The Translator's discursive presence in the translated text becomes discernible in certain cases, e.g. when the pragmatic displacement resulting from translation requires paratextual intervention for the benefit of the Implied Reader of the translated text; when self-reflexive references to the medium of communication itself are involved; when 'con…
Toury’s Empiricism Version One
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTheo HermansTheo Hermans, Department of Dutch, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK; [email protected]
Drie Gedichten
Oration Concerning the Excellence of Poetry
David Lingelbach's Unpublished Play ‘De Dood Van Maria Stuart, Koningin Van Engeland
Huygens on Translation
The tercentenary of the death of Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) presents a convenient occasion to trace the views held by this versatile and multilingual writer on the subject of translation. A first inventory of Huygens' pronouncements on the matter is all that will be attempted here. The choice of Huygens is not dictated by commemorative considerations alone. Both the contemporary appreciation of his work as a translator ? notably of John Donn…
Aenleidinge Ter Nederduitsche Dichtkunste
Vondel on Translation
This essay attempts to gain insight into seventeenth-century conceptions of literary translation in the Low Countries by looking at one of its central figures, Joost van den Vondel. The emphasis will be on the terms of Vondel's discourse on translation as much as on the nature of the views he expounds. The observations that are offered are both preliminary and provisional. Only further study will show to what extent Vondel's approach to matters o…
Plaijerwater: A Sixteenth-Century Farce With an English Translation
Acht gedichten
Cross-cultural translation studies as thick translation
Taking its cue from two specific examples (particular terms used by Aristotle and by Yan Fu) the first part of this article rehearses the hermeneutic question of cross-cultural understanding but gears the discussion to the specific issues of the complicity of translation in cross-cultural understanding, whether in an historical or an anthropological sense, and of the need to inspect critically the vocabulary used in the exercise. The second part …
Oration Concerning the Excellence of Poetry
Vondel on Translation
This essay attempts to gain insight into seventeenth-century conceptions of literary translation in the Low Countries by looking at one of its central figures, Joost van den Vondel. The emphasis will be on the terms of Vondel's discourse on translation as much as on the nature of the views he expounds. The observations that are offered are both preliminary and provisional. Only further study will show to what extent Vondel's approach to matters o…
Miracles in translation: L ipsius, O ur L ady of H alle and two D utch translations
In 1604 the F lemish humanist J ustus L ipsius (1547–1606) published a Latin treatise on miracles said to have happened on account of the intercession of the V irgin M ary in H alle, a small town near B russels. There are two D utch translations of L ipsius' book, one by A lbert van O osterwijck, published in D elft in 1605, the other by P hilips N uman, published in B russels in 1607. The translations are very similar but they are very different…
Translation, equivalence and intertextuality
(2003). Translation, equivalence and intertextuality. Wasafiri: Vol. 18, No. 40, pp. 39-41
Plaijerwater: A Sixteenth-Century Farce With an English Translation
Mountainous Terrain: TEN Berge'S ‘Andes’ and other poems
1977). MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN: TEN BERGE'S ‘ANDES’ and other poems. Dutch Crossing: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 45-51
Poems
Insingel: Comparison Creates Form
Gerrit kouwenaar: An Introduction
Recent books
Vondel: 13 Gedickten
P.C. hooft: The sonnets and the tragedy
(1980). P.C. hooft: the sonnets and the tragedy. Dutch Crossing: Vol. 4, No. 12, pp. 10-26
On revising a dutch-english dictionary
Acht gedichten
Group translation or ghost writing
Fantoches
Plaijerwater: A Sixteenth-Century Farce With an English Translation
Vondel on Translation
This essay attempts to gain insight into seventeenth-century conceptions of literary translation in the Low Countries by looking at one of its central figures, Joost van den Vondel. The emphasis will be on the terms of Vondel's discourse on translation as much as on the nature of the views he expounds. The observations that are offered are both preliminary and provisional. Only further study will show to what extent Vondel's approach to matters o…
Aenleidinge Ter Nederduitsche Dichtkunste
Huygens on Translation
The tercentenary of the death of Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) presents a convenient occasion to trace the views held by this versatile and multilingual writer on the subject of translation. A first inventory of Huygens' pronouncements on the matter is all that will be attempted here. The choice of Huygens is not dictated by commemorative considerations alone. Both the contemporary appreciation of his work as a translator ? notably of John Donn…
David Lingelbach's Unpublished Play ‘De Dood Van Maria Stuart, Koningin Van Engeland
Oration Concerning the Excellence of Poetry
Drie Gedichten
Toury’s Empiricism Version One
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTheo HermansTheo Hermans, Department of Dutch, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK; [email protected]
The Translator's Voice in Translated Narrative
When we read translated narrative, the original Narrator's voice is not the only which comes to us. The Translator's discursive presence in the translated text becomes discernible in certain cases, e.g. when the pragmatic displacement resulting from translation requires paratextual intervention for the benefit of the Implied Reader of the translated text; when self-reflexive references to the medium of communication itself are involved; when 'con…
Some Concluding Comments on the Debates and the Responses
Translation and Normativity
The article has two main aims: to illustrate the productive potential of the norms concept as an analytical tool in studying translations, and to explore the implications of the concept for the way we speak about translation. Part one takes up an historical case (Adrianus de Buck translating Boethius in 1653) and uses the concept of norms to inquire into the translator's choices. It is suggested that sociological concepts deployed by Bourdieu and…
Norms and the Determination of Translation: A Theoretical Framework
The Bookshop of the World: The Role of the Low Countries in the Book-Trade, 1473-1941
Proceedings of a Conference held in London, 15-17 september 1999, organized by The Association for Low Countries Studies, University College London, Centre for Dutch and Flemish Culture, The British Library, Dutch and Flemish section, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Twenty-five papers by experts in their particular period or area were selected for publication. Covering almost five centuries, they represent a wholly modern approach…
Translation, equivalence and intertextuality
(2003). Translation, equivalence and intertextuality. Wasafiri: Vol. 18, No. 40, pp. 39-41
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