Translation studies

Translation Studies emerged as its own academic field in the late 1970s. Scholars of that period began to ask whether a reader of foreign literature could engage with it meaningfully without first questioning whether language and culture can be carried across at all, and they examined the notion of equivalence in depth. Susan Bassnett's book traces this development and maps the ideas that shaped the discipline.

Two decades after the first edition, the field has kept expanding, yet the book has kept its place as a standard text. Its later revised editions have kept it current, and it remains a required point of reference for anyone studying the subject.