Böcker av Theo Hermans

An authoritative volume that is the first literary history of the Netherlands and Flanders in English since the 1970s

The Conference of the Tongues offers a series of startling reflections on fundamental questions of translation

Ranging from epistemological questions of description and historiography to the politics of language, this book tackles issues of research design and methodology, and goes on to examine the kind of disciplinary knowledge produced in translation studies, who produces it, and whose interests the dominant paradigms serve.

The notion of systems has helped revolutionize translation studies since the 1970s. This book explains how contemporary descriptive approaches came about, what the basic ideas were, and how those ideas have evolved over time. It addresses the fundamental problems of translation norms, equivalence, polysystems and social systems.