Premodern Translation: Comparative Approaches to Cross-Cultural Transformations

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author, this strong position resulted from the fact that such personalities as Marina Ginestà or Lydia Kúper were able to perform several roles simultaneously, embodying the aspirations of many women to avoid a subordinate position in the Civil War. In addition, the volume is enriched by a list of figures and photos (212–213), index of names (214–218), and index of terms (219–221), as well as short biographical notes of the contributors (222–223). This collection offers a fascinating and comprehensive insight into a thematic complex that has so far remained unnoticed from the viewpoint of broadly understood language studies. The authors of the individual contributions approach this fusion from different perspectives, yet the common point of reference remains clear, giving the volume a high degree of internal coherence. Perhaps a point of criticism is that in some texts the presentation of the historical and theoretical context is somewhat long and overwhelms the linguistic-translational phenomena in everyday Spanish Civil War as the actual subject. Overall, however, the volume is a fine testimony to a variety of research impacting on a critical understanding of the history of interpreting, translation and foreign language teaching and learning; it is also an undeniable inspiration for further endeavors.