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The Conference of the Tongues
Manchester: St Jerome Publishing, 2007
181 pages. ISBN 978 1 905763 05 4

Chapters:

Preface

1. The End
Words from above
Vienna's treaties
Versions of authority
Authentication in a minor key

2. Before the End
Hostile dynasties
Self-reference
Metatranslation

3. Irony's Echo
Translation, quotation, demonstration
Reported speech
Echoic translation

4. Real Presence
Uccello's predella
Transubstantiation
Figuration
Conversion

5. Connecting Systems
System
Form
Training
Observation
History

6. The Thickness of Translation Studies
Domestic representations
The thick of it
Understood?

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Index