Here are some common metaphors for thinking about translation: as a ferryman (a word that derives from the Latin transferre), as a new set of garments, and as resurrection or afterlife. These ...
Dora Zhang
Dora Zhang is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She has written on topics including Proust and photography, Woolf and philosophy of language, and Barthes’s travels in China. She is currently at work on a book about problems of description in modernist literature. 