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Argues for a postrationalist conception of translation based not on the translator's rational control of words and meanings but on a flowing through the translator of voices and textualities.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction: Who Translates? Preliminary Questions * Channeling * Rationalism, Pre- and Post-* Part One: The Spirit-channeling Model * Part Two: Ideology * Part Three: Transient Assemblies PART ONE: THE SPIRIT-CHANNELING MODEL 1. Reason and Spirit The Translator as Spirit-channel * "Reason"? "Spirit"? * Logologies of Reason and Spirit 2. The Divine Inspiration of Translation A Short History of Spirit-channeling * Socrates and the Art of the Rhapsode * Philo and Augustine on the Legend of the Septuagint * Joseph Smith and The Book of Mormon * Paul on Glossolalia and Interpreting PART TWO: IDEOLOGY 3. Ideology and Cryptonymy Logology of Ideology * Heidegger on Spirit * Cryptonymy: Abraham/Torok and Freud * Heidegger's Crypt * First Translation * Second Translation * Third Translation 4. The (Ideo)logic of Spectrality Shakespeare's Permission * (In)visibilizing Lear * Marx and Schleiermacher on Spirits and Ghosts PART THREE: TRANSIENT ASSEMBLIES 5. The Pandemonium Self Rationalist and Postrationalist Theories of the Self * Lacan's Schema L * Pandemonium * The Invisible Subject * The Translator's Objects * Fidus interpres and the Double Bind 6. The Invisible Hand Invisible and Hidden Hands * Translation Agencies Conclusion: Beyond Reason Works Cited Index

About the Author :
Douglas Robinson is Professor of English at the University of Mississippi and has written numerous books on translation and culture, including The Translator's Turn, Translation and Taboo, and Becoming a Translator: An Accelerated Course.

Review :
"...no writer on translation theory is as engaging as Robinson. Balancing humor and erudition, this work joins others in shaking the tree of conventional thought; and the reader joins Robinson in laughing at the notion that translation is an act of dispassionate reason or divine inspiration. In place of truths retrieved as naked as the unclothed emperor, he offers the reader poetically and ideologically colored cloth from Plato and Freud and the Old Testament...Who Translates? is likely to become the novice translator's guide to the orchestration of words." - CHOICE "Robinson's study of translation is boundless. From one work to the next he picks up on a barely mentioned tangent and carries it to new horizons with erudition and wit. Inasmuch as his scholarship proceeds to rechannel the mainstream, it is fitting that he now takes up translation as spirit-channeling. Readers will find much to challenge their preconceptions in this book." - Marilyn Gaddis Rose, editor of Translation Spectrum: Essays in Theory and Practice "What's most appealing about the book is its great culture-that is, its embrace of many disciplines, modes of thought, and disparate national/linguistic as well as philosophical and ideological traditions-and its extreme openness, its willingness to explore translation and subjectivity from perspectives that most academic writers and specialists would refuse to consider." - Jeff Humphries, author of Reading Emptiness: Buddhism and Literature


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780791448632
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 399 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0791448630
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Translator Subjectivities Beyond Reason
  • Width: 152 mm


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