These essays—which consider a wide variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to contemporary Japan— describe the conditions under which cultures that do not dominate each other may yet achieve a limited translatability of cultures.
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To a degree that was not foreseen, the essays in this volume engage in a collective critique of a single concept. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
secondary otherness, sunk relief, philosophical authorship, enlightened universalism, mutual translation, consensu evangelistarum, translatio studii, translatio imperil, shared thinking, minority conditions, fantastic mode, nonwestern countries, secondary imagination, translatio imperii, biblical poetics, ich bin nichts, magic wish Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Philosophy of Clothes, Sartor Resartus, United States, American Studies, Hebrew Bible, Old Testament, Second World War, Torquato Tasso, New Americanists, Jan Assmann, New Testament, Roman Empire, Tale of Melibee, Lionel Trilling, Emerson's Constitutional Amending, Wolfgang Iser, Canterbury Tales, New Criticism, Sacvan Bercovitch, West Indies, King David, Walter Benjamin, English Editor, General Prologue, New Critics New!
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To a degree that was not foreseen, the essays in this volume engage in a collective critique of a single concept. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
secondary otherness, sunk relief, philosophical authorship, enlightened universalism, mutual translation, consensu evangelistarum, translatio studii, translatio imperil, shared thinking, minority conditions, fantastic mode, nonwestern countries, secondary imagination, translatio imperii, biblical poetics, ich bin nichts, magic wish Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Philosophy of Clothes, Sartor Resartus, United States, American Studies, Hebrew Bible, Old Testament, Second World War, Torquato Tasso, New Americanists, Jan Assmann, New Testament, Roman Empire, Tale of Melibee, Lionel Trilling, Emerson's Constitutional Amending, Wolfgang Iser, Canterbury Tales, New Criticism, Sacvan Bercovitch, West Indies, King David, Walter Benjamin, English Editor, General Prologue, New Critics New!
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- Sartor Resartus (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Carlyle on 9 pages
- Canterbury Tales (Barron's Book Notes) by Chaucer on 8 pages
- Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society. Reprint of the 1950 Ed (Lionel Trilling Works) by Lionel Trilling on 4 pages
- The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on page 221, page 222, and Back Matter
- German Bible: Bible in German (Old and New Testaments) (Foreign Languages) (German Edition) by Martin Luther on page 169, page 170, and page 175
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- Across the Lines: Travel Language and Translation by Michael Cronin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- George Eliot and Schiller: Intertextuality and Cross-Cultural Discourse (Warwick Studies in the Humanities) by Deborah Guth on page 21, page 170, and Back Matter
- Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Janis McLarren Caldwell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Travel and Translation in the Early Modern Period (Approaches to Translation Studies 26) by Carmine G. Di Biase on page 30, and page 88
- Imperfect Sympathies: Jews and Judaism in British Romantic Literature and Culture by Judith Page in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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