- Publisher: Wayne State University Press
- Edition: Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series
- Available in: Hardback, eBook
- ISBN: 9780814332221
- Published: September 1, 2005
Foreign Words provides a detailed account of German-language translation practice and theory in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, linking the work of actual translators to the theories of translation articulated by Goethe, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and, above all, Friedrich Schleiermacher. Employing a variety of critical approaches, author Susan Bernofsky discusses in depth the work of Kleist, Hölderlin, and Goethe, whose virtuoso translations raise issues that serve to delineate a theory of translation still relevant at the turn of the twenty-first century.