Literature in Translation

Celebrating Translationness: Reading a Translation

B.J. Epstein | Posted 22.05.2012 | Home
B.J. Epstein

If we consider how we read - just compare how you read the newspaper to how you would read a textbook, or how you read a novel when you were a teenager to how you do so 15 years later - it becomes clear that we do read different texts in different ways, with different aims guiding our reading, at different points in our lives and in different contexts.