Introduction: The city as translation zone

Introduction: The city as translation
zone
Michael Cronina & Sherry Simonb
a Centre for Translation and Textual Studies, Dublin City
University, Ireland
b Département d’études françaises, Concordia University,
Montreal, Canada
Published online: 09 Apr 2014.
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