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Part of the book: Horace’s Epistles, Wieland and the Reader

Jane V. Curran

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 38

Bithell Series of Dissertations 19

W. S. Maney & Son Ltd for the Modern Humanities Research Association and the Institute of Germanic Studies

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Abstract.  Wieland offers us no systematic, self-contained theory of translation, nor does he outline any scheme which could then be tested against his principles as a translator. The main sources for his views on translation are reviews of others work, and prefaces to his own translations. If Wieland is included at all in histories of eighteenth-century translation theory, the reference will be to one of his reviews. Wieland’s thoughts on various aspects of translation, whether occasioned by a review or a preface, may appear to be expressed abstractly, but they always apply to a particular work; they are essentially pragmatic.

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