On Translation

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Indiana University Press, 11 de out. de 2002 - 144 páginas

"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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2 Scenes of Translation at Large
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3 Translation and the Force of Words
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4 Varieties of Untranslatability
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Index
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John Sallis is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. His books include Force of Imagination: The Sense of the Elemental; Chorology: On Beginning in Plato's Timaeus; and Shades -- Of Painting at the Limit (all Indiana University Press).

Informações bibliográficas

TítuloOn Translation
On Translation
Studies in Continental Thought
AutorJohn Sallis
EditoraIndiana University Press, 2002
ISBN0253109442, 9780253109446
Num. págs.144 páginas
  
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