Introduction
One of the most influential theories on translation in the 20th century was Itamar Even-Zohar's Polysystem theory. This theory became influential because it attempted to view translations from a more comprehensive perspective, by locating them within the context of the literature of the receptor language. The theory was not originally propounded for translations, but was later used to understand the position of translations and their function. Influenced by Russian Formalism, Even-Zohar developed the polysystem theory in the early 1970s while trying to come up with a model for Hebrew literature.The work was originally published in French, and was published in 1978 in English as Papers in Historical Poetics . Gideon Toury, a younger scholar, expanded it further and came up with the theory of norms in translation.
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