Echoes of Translation: Reading Between Texts
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In a series of readings of Sophocles, Holderlin, Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Benjamin, Rainer Nagele investigates the extraordinary territory that lies not merely between texts but also between languages - in translations. This space between texts and languages is approached in the figure of the echo. It is the figure of a transmission through and with the help of resistance. It is a complex figure that cannot be reduced to the simple repetition of a stable entity or origin. And yet, Nagele argues, it is in this "echo-chamber" of resonances that history in all its concreteness has its place and becomes readable.
Author: Rainer Nagele
Format: Hardback, 120 pages, 152mm x 229mm, 390 g
Published: 1997, Johns Hopkins University Press, United States
Genre: Literary Theory
In a series of readings of Sophocles, Holderlin, Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Benjamin, Rainer Nagele investigates the extraordinary territory that lies not merely between texts but also between languages - in translations. This space between texts and languages is approached in the figure of the echo. It is the figure of a transmission through and with the help of resistance. It is a complex figure that cannot be reduced to the simple repetition of a stable entity or origin. And yet, Nagele argues, it is in this "echo-chamber" of resonances that history in all its concreteness has its place and becomes readable.