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The City of Translation: Poetry and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

The City of Translation: Poetry and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

Loparo, Kenneth A.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0230615333
ISBN13: 9780230615335
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 18 2010
Pages: 261
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Awards: PROSE
WINNER OF THE PROSE AWARD FOR LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, AND LINGUISTICS! The two principal questions that The City of Translation sets out to answer are: how did poetry, philology, catechesis, and literary translation legitimate a coterie of right-wing literati's rise to power in Colombia? And how did these men proceed to dismantle a long-standing liberal-democratic state without derogating basic constitutional freedoms? To answer those questions, José María Rodríguez García investigates the emergence, development, and decline of what he calls the reactionary city of translation-a variation on, and a correction to, Ángel Rama's understanding of the nineteenth-century lettered city as a primarily liberal and modernizing project. The City of Translation makes the tropes of translatio the conceptual nucleus of a comprehensive analysis that cuts across academic disciplines, ranging from political philosophy and the history of concepts to the relationship of literature to religious doctrine and the law.

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