Beyond Translation Essays Toward a Modern Philology

Name: Beyond Translation Essays Toward a Modern Philology
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ISBN: 9780472087525

ISBN-10: 0472087525

ISBN-13: 9780472087525

Edition: 2000

Authors: Alton L. Becker, Alton L. Becker

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"This is not only a new philology but a new American linguistic philology. . . . Becker's harvest over a lifetime will be widely welcomed and respected." -Paul Friedrich, University of Chicago ". . . a book of extraordinary quality and importance." -James Boyd White, University of Michigan How does Ralph Waldo Emerson sound in Kawi? In this collection of essays A. L. Becker develops a new approach to translation he calls modern philology, an approach that insists, beyond translation, on the sorting out of ambiguities and contexts of meaning. Becker describes how texts in Burmese, Javanese, and Malay differ profoundly from English in all the ways they have meaning: in the games they…

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 11/14/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.80" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English