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Echoes of Translation: Reading Between Texts - Hardcover

Nġgele

 
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Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Rainer Ndgele is professor of German at the Johns Hopkins University. His books include 'Theater, Theory, and Speculation: Walter Benjamin and the Scenes of Modernity', also available from Johns Hopkins.

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