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On Translation

On Translation

Sallis, John

Paperback

Series: Studies in Continental Thought

PhilosophyLinguisticsWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 0253215536
ISBN13: 9780253215536
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Oct 11 2002
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.44 Depth: 8.62
Language: English

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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