Douglas Robinson
- Born
- 1954 · Lafayette.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- linguist · writer · translator · philologist
- Education
- Tahoma Senior High School
- Languages
- English
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Douglas Robinson (born 30 September 1954) is recorded as a philologist.
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The birth of Douglas Robinson is recorded on 30 September 1954 in Lafayette, Indiana.
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Douglas Robinson studied at Tahoma Senior High School. The recorded working language is English. Employment is recorded with Hong Kong Baptist University.
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- 1.See Lin Zhu, The Translator-Centered Multidisciplinary Construction: Douglas Robinson's Translation Theories Explored (Bern: Peter Lang, 2012), 13, 28.
- 2.Schillinger, Liesl. Hush, Memory. The New York Times. 2009-05-08. 0362-4331.
- 3.For published reviews, see e.g. Helsingin Sanomat and Ylioppilaslehti; English translations of excerpts from those reviews can be found here.
- 4.Zhu (2012: 28).
- 5.Zhu (2012: 28).
- 6.Center on Russia and the United States :: News Archive. suny.msu.ru.
- 7.Appointment announced here .
- 8.HKBU appoints new Dean of Arts. Hong Kong Baptist University. 2012-12-18.
- 9.See Zhu (2012: 29–31).
- 10.See Zhu (2012: 31–32).
- 11.Pentinpeijaiset ("Pentti's Wake"; for reviews, see note 3).
- 12.The first coauthored with Diana Webster, Liisa Elonen, Leena Kirveskari, Seppo Tella, and Thelma Wiik (Jet Set 9. Helsinki: Otava, 1982), the second coauthored with Vesa Häggblom (The Light Fantastic. Helsinki: Otava, 1983).
- 13.For students of translation: Becoming a Translator: An Accelerated Course (London and New York: Routledge, editions in 1997, 2003, 2012); for students of linguistic pragmatics: Introducing Performative Pragmatics (London and New York: Routledge, 2006); for students of writing: Writing as Drama, coauthored with Svetlana Ilinskaya (custom-published by McGraw–Hill Learning Solutions for the University of Mississippi, 2007–2010).
- 14.Suomi/englanti/suomi-sanakirja (Jyväskylä: Gummerus, with new editions from 1989 to the present).
- 15.See Zhu (2012: chs. 4–5), and "An Interview with Professor Douglas Robinson ," Chinese Translators Journal 2 (2009): 39–44.
- 16.Robinson coined "icosis" from Aristotle's eikos "plausible" and ta eikota "the plausibilities," and his insistence that, given a choice between a story that is true but implausible and a story that is plausible but untrue, we will tend to choose the latter, because plausibility is organized by the group.
- 17.Published as American Apocalypses (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985)
- 18.See The Translator's Turn (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), chapter 2, and Translation and Taboo (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1996), chapter 2.
- 19.See Who Translates? (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001).
- 20.Translation and Taboo, ch. 1. For Robinson's publications, go to Google Scholar, or see Amazon.com's Douglas Robinson Page.
- 21.See Zhu (2012).
- 22.See The Experimental Translator, Translator, Touretter, Lessons Experimental Translators Can Learn from Finnegans Wake, and A Zombie Theory of Translation.
- 23.See his transcreation of Volter Kilpi, Gulliver’s Voyage to Phantomimia (Bucharest, Romania: Zeta Books, 2020), and the 2026 Finnish stage adaptation of that transcreation by Elina Kilkku at the Volter Kilpi in Kustavi Summer Literary Festival; his pseudotranslation J I Vatanen, The Last Days of Maiju Lassila (Austin: Atmosphere, 2022); “An Alphabet of Avant-Garde Perspectives on World Literature and the Translator’s (In)visibility: With an Avant-Garde Translation of Walter Benjamin’s ‘Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers’,” In Alexandra Lukes, ed., Avant-Garde Translation, 201-40 (Leiden, and Boston: Brill, 2023); and ‘’Benjamins Totin’ Vodka,” In Robinson, Lessons Experimental Translators can Learn from Finnegans Wake: Translouting that Gaswind into Turfish, 65-103 (London and New York: Routledge, 2024).
- 24.Peter Lang, 2012.
- 25.Pp. 17–20.
- 26.See e.g. Liu Zhongde (刘重德), 罗宾逊对译者两种倾向的论析及翻译新论. 外语研究, 1998 (2): 46–49; Zhang Meifang (张美芳), 从经验、文本到解构翻译概念——西方翻译教科书管窥. 解放军外国语学院学报, 2001 (2): 12–14; Pan Wenguo (潘文国), 当代西方的翻译学研究.中国翻译, 2002(3): 18–22; Han Ziman (韩子满), 翻译中的理性与对话性——罗宾逊的《译者的转变》评介. 广东外语外贸大学学报, 2003 (3): 89–92, 翻译的禁忌与多元¬:罗宾逊的《翻译与禁忌》评介. 外语研究, 2004 (4): 58–61, 翻译职业化与译员培训——罗宾逊《速成翻译教程》评介. 中国翻译, 2004 (3): 55–58, and (韩子满). 解构式的译者主体性探索——读罗宾逊的《谁翻译》. 西安外国语大学学报, 2008 (1): 95–97; Tan Zaixi (谭载喜), 《西方翻译简史（增订本）》. 北京：商务印书, 2004, and 《西方翻译理论：从希罗多德到尼采》导读, 出自道格拉斯·罗宾逊的《西方翻译理论：从希罗多德到尼采》. 北京：外语教学与研究出版社, 2006; Lu Yuling (卢玉玲), 翻译的幽灵——评道格拉斯罗宾逊的《谁在翻译?——超越理性论译者的主体性》. 中国翻译, 2004(2): 56–58; Wang Danyang (王丹阳), 译者：在理性与非理性之间——罗宾逊后理性主义理论关照下的译者研究. 外语与外语教学, 2006 (3): 53–56; Chen Hongwei (陈宏薇), 道格拉斯·洛宾逊以人为中心的翻译教学思想评介.中国翻译, 2006(2): 45–50; Xu Jian (徐剑), 行为理论与当代翻译理论研究. 解放军外国语学院学报, 2006 (5): 74–77; Mao Sihui (毛思慧),《什么是翻译？》导读，出自道格拉斯·罗宾逊的《什么是翻译？离心式理论，批判性介入》. 北京：外语教学与研究出版社, 2007; Yan Bin (阎彬), 穿梭于经验与习惯之间——从道格拉斯·罗宾逊的翻译教学思想看口译译员的自我学习和提高. 国际商务—对外经济贸易大学学报, 2008年增刊: 58–61; Feng Wenkun and Luo Zhi (冯文坤, 罗植), 论罗宾逊"翻译的躯体学". 四川师范大学学报(社会科学版), 2008(2): 102–109; and Duan Feng (段峰),《文化视野下文学翻译主体性研究》. 成都：四川大学出版社, 2008. This work is reviewed critically in English translation in Zhu (2012: 36–39), with the Chinese originals printed on pp. 239–240.
- 27.See Zhu (2012: 60n31, 119, 221).
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