Translation Studies Reader - Lawrence Venuti

Question 1

The task of a Translator by Walter Benjamin is the introduction to which work?

Answer 1

An introduction to the translation Tableaux Parisiens section of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal

Question 2

What does Apodictically mean?

Answer 2

Apodictic” or “apodeictic is an adjectival expression from Aristotelean logic that refers to propositions that are demonstrably, necessarily or self-evidently true

Question 3

Name the theorists involved with the Frankfurt school?

Answer 3

Herbert Marcuse, Theodore Adorno, Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Fromm, Friedrich Pollock, Leo Löwenthal, Jurgen Habermas, Alfred Schmidt, Honneth, Kracauer, Kirchheimer

Question 4

The Task of the translator by Walter Benjamin was written in?

Answer 4

1923

Question 5

The two major work - “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1935), and “Theses on the Philosophy of History” (1940) were authored by?

Answer 5

Walter Benjamin

Question 6

According to Walter Benjamin ““All supra-historical kinship of languages rests in the intention underlying each language as a whole—an intention, however, which no single language can attain by itself but which is realized only by the totality of their intentions supplementing each other: ———–”

Answer 6

pure language