Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface xiii
4. Acknowledgements xv
5. Introduction xvii
6. Chapter 1. The reading act, 1: Personal and environmental aspects of our sensory and intellectual interaction with the book 1
7. Chapter 2. The reading act, 2: The verbal and nonverbal components in the translated text and the reader's oralization of it 41
8. Chapter 3. The reading act, 3: Vision, creation, recreation, and the relationship writer-translator-reader 85
9. Chapter 4. From reading act to viewing act: The translating nature of pictorial illustrations and of theater and cinema performances 111
10. Chapter 5. The viewing-listening act in the theater and the cinema: Translation and recreation from text to performance 135
11. Chapter 6. The sounds of paralanguage in translation: Our voices between cultures in the novel, the theater and the cinema 173
12. Chapter 7. The sounds beyond language and paralanguage in the novel, the theater and the cinema: Evocation and live realization 219
13. Chapter 8. Translating kinesics: Spatial and temporal perspectives in the novel, the theater and the cinema 255
14. Appendix I. An English inventory of sounds-denoting words 295
15. Appendix II. An English inventory of movement-denoting words 315
16. List of illustrations 339
17. Scientific references 341
18. Literary references 343
19. Films cited 353
20. Index of literary authors and works cited 355
21. Name index 361
22. Subject index 363