On translation
by Sallis, John
"Everyone complains about what is lost in translations. This is the first account I have seen of the potentially positive impact of translation, that it represents ... a genuinely new contribution."--Drew A. Hyland In his original philosophical exploration of translation, John Sallis shows that translating is much more than a matter of transposing one language into another. At the very heart of language, translation is operative throughout human thought and experience. Sallis approaches transla…
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"Everyone complains about what is lost in translations. This is the first account I have seen of the potentially positive impact of translation, that it represents ... a genuinely new contribution."--Drew A. Hyland In his original philosophical exploration of translation, John Sallis shows that translating is much more than a matter of transposing one language into another. At the very heart of language, translation is operative throughout human thought and experience. Sallis approaches translation from four directions: from the dream of nontranslation, or universal translatability; through a scene of translation staged by Shakespeare, in which the entire range of senses of translation is played out; through the question of the force of words; and from the representation of untranslatability in painting and music. Drawing on Jakobson, Gadamer, Benjamin, and Derrida, Sallis shows how the classical concept of translation has undergone mutation and deconstruction
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- Publication Date:©2002.
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- Publisher(s):Indiana University Press
- Place of Publication:Bloomington
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2002.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xii, 125 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0253109442, 9780253109446, 9780253341563, 0253341566, 9780253215536, 0253215536, 9780253106841, 0253106842
- oclc:ocm50739148
- LC Classification:B840
- Dewey Decimal:107/.2
Table of Contents
Contents -- Preface -- One The Dream of ontranslation -- Two Scenes of Translation at Large -- Three Translation an the Force of Wor s -- Four Varieties of ntranslatability -- General Index -- Greek Word Index
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