The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between by Wolfgang Is

Description: The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between by Wolfgang Iser, Sanford Budick The fourteen essays in this volume—which consider a wide variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to contemporary Japan—address both sorts of discourse and elucidate the two-way or mutual conditioning of cultural positions as well as the illusions and exclusions created by mutuality. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Translation between any two languages sets in motion a cultural tug-of-war. This struggle can be perilous for the culture that has less power to retain the usages of its language. Since translation wields powerful forces of cultural change, it is an arena both of the global coercions of national cultures and of the local dominations of everyday others by everyday selves. Thus the ethics of translation are both the ethics of cross-cultural discourse and the unit problem of ethical discourse itself. The fourteen essays in this volume consider a wide variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to contemporary Japan. The essays describe the conditions under which cultures that do not dominate each other may yet achieve a limited translatability of cultures, while at the same time alerting us to some of the dangers of a so-called mutual translation between cultures. Table of Contents Contributors Crisis of alterity: cultural untranslatability and the experience of secondary otherness Sanford Budick Part I. Perspectives in History: 1. Translating Gods: religion as a factor of cultural (un)translatability Jan Assman 2. Visual syncretism: a case study Moshe Barasch 3. Translatio studii and renaissance: from vertical to horizontal translation Karlheinz Stierle 4. Augustine, Chaucer, and the translation of biblical poetics Lawrence Besserman 5. The curse and blessing of babel or, looking back on universalism Aleida Assmann 6. Emersons constitutional amending: reading fate Stanley Cavell 7. The holocaust and the construction of modern American literary criticism: the case of Lionel Trilling Emily Miller Budick 8. Discovering America: a cross-cultural perspective Sacvan Bercovitch 9. It is time: the Buber-Rosenzweig bible translation in context Klaus Reichert 10. The black hole of culture: Japan, radical otherness, and the disappearance of difference (or, In Japan everything normal) K. Ludwig Pfeiffer Part II. Models of Relationship: 11. Border crossings, translating theory: Ruth J. Hillis Miller 12. Cross-culture, Chiasmus, and the manifold of mind Sanford Budick 13. The emergence of a cross-cultural discourse: Thomas Carlyles Sartor Resartus Wolfgang Iser 14. Memory and cultural translation Gabriel Motzkin 15. Remarks on the foreign (strange) as a figure of cultural ambivalence Renate Lachmann 16. Coda to the discussion Wolfgang Iser Notes Index. Details ISBN0804725616 Short Title TRANSLATABILITY OF CULTURES Pages 364 Publisher Stanford University Press Series Irvine Studies in the Humanities Language English ISBN-10 0804725616 ISBN-13 9780804725613 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 418.02 Year 1996 Publication Date 1996-01-31 Author Sanford Budick Imprint Stanford University Press Subtitle Figurations of the Space Between Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States Illustrations 2 half-tones Birth 1942 Affiliation Hebrew University of Jerusalem Edited by Wolfgang Iser DOI 10.1604/9780804725613 Audience Professional and Scholarly UK Release Date 1996-01-01 AU Release Date 1996-01-01 NZ Release Date 1996-01-01 US Release Date 1996-01-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159455216;

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