This 4th edition remains essential reading for anyone new to the field and has been updated to include The Cultural Turn in Translation Studies, Translation and Power, Postcolonial translation, Skopos theory, Translation and new technology, The 'Translational Turn', translation studies in the Chinese and Indian contexts, and translating for the theatre.

Preface to the fourth edition Introduction Chapter 1 Central issues Chapter 2 History of translation theory Chapter 3 Specific problems of literary translation Select bibliography

Susan Bassnett is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick. She has published extensively on translation, and her best known books include Reflections on Translation (2011), Constructing Cultures written with André Lefevere (1996) and Post-Colonial Translation co-edited with Harish Trivedi (1999). She translates from several languages and lectures on aspects of translation all over the world.