Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability - Rilegato

Apter, Emily

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ISBN 10: 1844679713 ISBN 13: 9781844679713

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2013

Riassunto

The book engages in a polemical critique of recent efforts to revive World Literature models of literary studies (Moretti, Casanova, etc) on the grounds that they construct their curricula on an assumption of translatability. As a result, incommensurability and what Apter calls the “untranslatable” are insufficiently built into the literary heuristic. Drawing on philosophies of translation developed by de Man, Derrida, Sam Weber, Barbara Johnson, Abdelfattah Kilito and Édouard Glissant, as well as on the way in which “the untranslatable” is given substancein the context of Barbara Cassin’s Vocabulaire européen des philosophies: Dictionnaire des intraduisibles, the aim is to activate Untranslatability as a theoretical fulcrum of Comparative Literature with bearing on approaches to world literature, literary world systems and literary history, the politics of periodization, the translation of philosophy and theory, the bounds of non-secular proscription and cultural sanction, free versus privatized authorial property, and the poetics of translational difference.

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Recensione:

What is so unusual is the impressive breadth and range of Apter's reading in literatures across the globe. --Robert J.C. Young, Oxford University, author of Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction

L'autore:

Emily Apter is Professor of Comparative Literature and French at New York University. Her published works include The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature and Continental Drift: From National Characters to Subjects.

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• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1844679713
• ISBN 13: 9781844679713
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 358