The Translator’s Art of Failure: Engaging the Other in Imperfect Harmony
Rather than view translation as a compromise at best, a failure at worst, and always derivative and secondary, I explore the practice of literary translation as one of engagement: with the text, with the Other, and with the world. I will discuss the nature of this engagement as dynamic, electric, li...
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Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta
2009-07-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/tc/index.php/TC/article/view/6460 |