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Author	Duncan, Dennis (Dennis J. B.)
Title	Babel : adventures in translation / Dennis Duncan, Stephen Harrison, Katrin Kohl and Matthew Reynolds.
Publication Info.	Oxford : The Bodleian Library, 2019.
	©2019

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 9	418 D	IN LIBRARY

Description	176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Note	Consists of essays supplementing the exhibition "Babel: adventures in translation," held at the Bodleian from 15 February 15 to 2 June 2019 , written by the curators and illustrated with images from the Bodleian's collections.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Babel: curse or blessing? / Matthew Reynolds -- 'Debabelization': creating a universal language / Dennis Duncan -- Translating the divine / Matthew Reynolds -- An epic journey: translating Homer's Iliad and Odyssey / Stephen Harrison -- Translating tales: beast fables around the world / Stephen Harrison -- Traversing realms of fantasy / Katrin Kohl -- Negotiating multilingual Britain / Katrin Kohl -- Languages lost in time / Dennis Duncan.
Subject	Sociolinguistics.
	Translating and interpreting.
	Multilingualism.
Added Author	Harrison, S. J.
	Kohl, Katrin M. (Katrin Maria), 1956-
	Reynolds, Matthew, 1969-
Added Title	Adventures in translation
ISBN	185124509X hardback
	9781851245093 hardback

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