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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136589503321

Autore

Robinson Douglas <1954->

Titolo

Exorcising translation : towards an intercivilizational turn / / Douglas Robinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, , 2020

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020

ISBN

1-5013-2608-2

1-5013-2606-6

1-5013-2607-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 pages)

Collana

Literatures, cultures, translation

Classificazione

LIT000000LIT006000

Disciplina

418/.04

Soggetti

Translating and interpreting

Literature - Translations - History and criticism

Literature and transnationalism

East and West

Literature & literary studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- 0.1 Panicked Eurocentrism -- 0.2 The Structure of the Book -- 0.3 Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Sakai Naoki on Translation -- 1.1 Sakai's Model -- 1.2 Implications for Civilizational Spells -- Chapter 2: The Casting of Civilizational Spells: Nietzsche as Precursor, Bloom as Ephebe -- 2.1 Nietzsche 1: Slave Morality as a Civilizational Spell -- 2.2 Nietzsche 2: The Mnemotechnics of Pain -- 2.3 Bloom 1: The Western Canon as a Tug-of-War Between Civilizational Spells -- 2.4 Bloom 2: The Canon as Memory as Pain -- 2.5 Nietzsche 3: Guilt and Debt -- 2.6 Nietzsche 4: The Desomatization of Somatic Codes -- 2.7 Bloom 3: The Western Canon, Universalized -- 2.8 Cofiguration? -- Chapter 3: East and West: Towards an Intercivilizational Turn -- 3.1 An East-to-West Countertradition as a Cofigurative Regime of Translation -- 3.2 The Occidentalist Attack on ?Immature, Self-Centered Western Minds? -- 3.2.1 Kirkland on Distortions of Daoism -- 3.2.2 Problems in Kirkland's Attack -- 3.3 Three Historical Stages of Laozi Translation --



3.3.1 Christianity -- 3.3.2 Esotericism -- 3.3.3 Romanticism -- 3.4 First Conclusion: Civilizational Spells, Again -- 3.5 Second Conclusion: Eurocentrism, Decentered -- 3.6 Third Conclusion: An Intercivilizational Turn? -- References -- Endnotes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"A major new work in translation studies and comparative literature, looking at the tensions and relations between western and eastern culture and literature, by a pioneering scholar in the field"--