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Budick, Sanford and Wolfgang Iser, eds. 1996. The translatability of cultures: figurations of the space between. Stanford: Stanford University Press. xiv + 348 pp.
Publication type
Edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
ambivalence | Bible translation=Bible | case study | comparative research=contrastive research | criticism=translation criticism | culture=cultural approach | interculturality=transculturality=cross-culturality | interpreting | poetry=poem | Renaissance | theory=translation theory=interpreting theory | translatability=untranslatability | translation | universal
Main ISBN
0-8047-2484-9

Abstract

The essays in this book embark upon a collective critique of a single concept, which is alterity or, as frequently stated, yoking definiteness with indefiniteness – ‘the other’. The book is divided into two main parts: perspectives in history and models of relationship. The topics discussed range from cross-cultural discourse to the translation of biblical poets.
Source : J. Vluijmans

Articles in this volume

Assmann, Jan. Translating Gods: religion as a factor of cultural (un)translatability. 25–36
Barasch, Moshe. Visual syncretism: a case study. 37–54
Stierle, Karlheinz. Translatio studii and renaissance: from vertical to horizontal translation. 55–67
Besserman, Lawrence. Augustine, Chaucer, and the translation of biblical poets. 68–84
Assmann, Aleida. The curse and blessing of Babel; or, looking back on universalisms. 85–100
Cavell, Stanley. Emerson's constitutional amending: reading 'fate'. 101–126
Budick, Emily Miller. The Holocaust and the construction of modern American literary criticism: the case of Lionel Trilling. 127–146
Bercovitch, Sacvan. Discovering America: a cross-cultural perspective. 147–168
Reichert, Klaus. 'It is time': the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible translation in context. 169–185
Pfeiffer, K. Ludwig. The black hole of culture: Japan, radical otherness, and the disappearance of difference (or, 'in Japan everything normal). 186–206
Miller, J. Hillis. Border crossings, translating theory: Ruth. 207–223
Budick, Sanford. Cross-culture, chiasmus, and the manifold of mind. 224–244
Iser, Wolfgang. The emergence of a cross-cultural discourse: Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus. 245–264
Motzkin, Gabriel. Memory and cultural translation. 265–281
Lachmann, Renate. Remarks on the foreign (strange) as a figure of cultural ambivalence. 282–293
Iser, Wolfgang. Coda to the discussion. 294–302

Reviewed by

Wolf, Michaela. 1998. Review of The translatability of cultures: figurations of the space between. Perspectives 6 (1) : 125–126.
Wolf, Michaela. 1998. Review of The translatability of cultures: figurations of the space between. TEXTconTEXT 12 (2) : 149–152.