Alexandra Lopes
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexandra Lopes plays a role.
Articles
2007 Notes for a cartography of literary translation history in Portugal Doubts and Directions in Translation Studies: Selected contributions from the EST Congress, Lisbon 2004, Gambier, Yves, Miriam Shlesinger † and Radegundis Stolze (eds.), pp. 59–71 | Chapter
This paper is both a shortened version of a provisional account of a research project entitled “Literary Histories and Translations. Representations of the Other in Portuguese Culture” and an attempt at describing briefly the past and future of literary translation studies in Portugal. Therefore,… read more
2006 An Englishman in Alentejo: Crimes, Misdemeanours & the Mystery of Overtranslatability Translation Studies at the Interface of Disciplines, Duarte, João Ferreira, Alexandra Assis Rosa and Teresa Seruya (eds.), pp. 169–184 | Article
When faced with a translated text, the reader must ask him/herself what it is s/he expects of a translation: is it a taste of the foreign or a confirmation of the self? The answer will, to some extent, determine how s/he evaluates the text s/he is reading.Writing in English about Portuguese matters… read more