Criteria in Literary Translation Quality AssessmentA Proposal Applied to David Rowland¿s Translation (1586) of El Lazarillo de Tormes
ISSN: 0211-5913
Year of publication: 2006
Issue: 53
Pages: 163-182
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
Abstract
After a methodological outline of the literary translation quality assessment model, proposals concerning assessment criteria are discussed. As translation quality assessment should account for the practice of translation, it is argued that criteria must be flexible and broad enough to be always delimited in each study as research advances. To corroborate this assertion assessment criteria have been implemented to the first translation of El Lazarillo de Tormes into the English language, David Rowland’s translation (1586). As a result, conclusions concerning the quality of this translation are drawn