Chapman The Afterlife of Texts in Translation

Understanding the Messianic in Literature
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-32452-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 140 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Psychology and Our Planet

The Afterlife of Texts in Translation: Understanding the Messianic in Literature
reads Walter Benjamin’s and Jacques Derrida’s writings on translation as suggesting that texts exist within a process of continual translation. Understanding Benjamin’s and Derrida’s concept of ‘afterlife’ as ‘overliving’, this book proposes that reading Benjamin’s and Derrida’s writings on translation in terms of their wider thought on language and history suggests that textuality itself possesses a ‘messianic’ quality. Developing this idea in relation to the many rewritings and translations of
Don Quijote
, particularly the multiple rewritings by Jorge Luis Borges, Edmund Chapman asserts that texts consist of a structure of potential for endless translation that continually promises the overcoming of language, history and textuality itself.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chapman, Edmund

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: Afterlife.- Chapter Three: The Overtext.- Chapter Four: Language, Judgment, Colonialism.- Chapter Five: The Messianic.- Chapter Six: Pierre Menard, Messianic Translator.- Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Overliving and the Encounter with the Other.

Über Autor(innen)

Edmund Chapman
has taught English Literature and French at the University of Manchester, UK. He is a co-editor of
New Voices in Translation Studies
.