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Robinson and Sun's book explores the neglected metaphorics of translation in pornography using poststructuralist rethinkings and reframings of porn (and masturbation). It will interest translation studies scholars and students and media scholars interested in the philosophical complexities of performativity.

This book applies frameworks from behavioral economics to Western thinking about translation, mapping four approaches to eight keywords in translation studies to bring together divergent perspectives on the study of translation and interpreting.

Offers a comprehensive collection of translation theory readings, from the "Histories of Herodotus" in the mid-fifth century before our era to the end of the nineteenth century. This book covers such topics as the best type of translator, problems of translating sacred texts, translation and language teaching, and translation as rhetoric.