<div>Spanning the centuries, from the seventeenth to the <br>twentieth, and ranging across cultures, from England to <br>Mexico, this collection gathers together important statements <br>on the function and feasibility of literary translation. The <br>essays provide an overview of the historical evolution in <br>thinking about translation and offer strong individual <br>opinions by prominent contemporary theorists. <br><br>Most of the twenty-one pieces appear in translation, <br>some here in English for the first time and many difficult to <br>find elsewhere. Selections include writings by <br>Scheiermacher, Nietzsche, Ortega, Benjamin, Pound, Jakobson, <br>Paz, Riffaterre, Derrida, and others. <br><br>A fine companion to <i>The Craft of Translation,</i> this <br>volume will be a valuable resource for all those who <br>translate, those who teach translation theory and practice, <br>and those interested in questions of language philosophy and <br>literary theory. <br><br>John Biguenet, past president of the American Literary <br>Translators Association, is professor of English at Loyola <br>University in New Orleans. Rainer Schulte is professor <br>of arts and humanities and director of the Center for <br>Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. <br>They are the coeditors of <i>The Craft of Translation,</i> <br>also published by the University of Chicago Press.<br><br></div>