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Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 16   AIL 1503 short lesson, about 20 seconds

The Translation Problem

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The idea

Three of this band's four principal sources reach an English reader through a translator or a modernising editor. What you read was shaped by someone other than the author, and the exam will print one particular version. That is the band's central difficulty.

In practice

Someone stands between you and the author.

Where people slip

The exam prints one version.

Your place on the trail

Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.

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