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Benoit Léger

Academic Title: Professor

Name: Benoit Léger

 

Department: Department of French Studies

Department Website: https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/francais.html

Institution: Concordia University

 

Address: 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8
Canada

 

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Expertise: Translation of English literature in France in the 18th century (Swift, Pope, Fielding, Clifton)
Pseudo-translations
Critical reception of translations in the 18th and 19th centuries.
18th century translational vocabulary and translation metaphors
Paratext and translation
Desfontaines and Voltaire
Re-editions of concurrent translations and retranslations from the Gulliver in the 19th century
Literary translation
Carol shields
History of translation

 

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