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The Linguistic Picture of the World
Alice's Adventures in Many Languages
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2021
Summary
This book has been inspired by Walter Benjamin’s idea of an afterlife of an original in its translations and probes into a wide variety of extensions of Carroll’s story in six languages. For one thing, it deals with language that speaks and more or less automatically steers its users in a particular direction and, for another, it discusses the creativity of individual translators who not only share a definite picture of the world with their language community but, in great many instances, reveal a unique resourcefulness in resisting its power. Each chapter deals first with a separate theoretical issue (e.g. literalness, style, gender, and tense) and then proceeds to examine its practical actualization in various translations of Alice.
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Edition
1/2021
Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-3-95650-749-6
ISBN-Online
978-3-95650-750-2
Publisher
Ergon, Baden-Baden
Language
English
Pages
321
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Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 14
The Translator’s Visibility No access Pages 15 - 28
Gender and Style No access Pages 29 - 60
Nonsense and the Dialectic of Order No access Pages 61 - 94
Touching Cooks and Flying Cauldrons: What Is the Literal Meaning of a Word? No access Pages 95 - 134
The Philosophers’ Alice No access Pages 135 - 168
Behind Dandelion Trees: The Language of Numbers, Measures, and Sizes No access Pages 169 - 212
Through the Eyes of a Child No access Pages 213 - 248
The Language of Violence No access Pages 249 - 278
McTaggart’s Paradox: Time and the Parity of Tenses No access Pages 279 - 302
