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“The Knots Within”: Translations, Tapestries, And The Art Of Reading Backwards, Kathryn Vomero Santos Jul 2019

“The Knots Within”: Translations, Tapestries, And The Art Of Reading Backwards, Kathryn Vomero Santos

Kathryn Vomero Santos

This article presents a new approach to reading the famous tapestry metaphor that has circulated in discourses on translation for centuries. Popularized by Miguel de Cervantes in the second part of Don Quixote (1615), the image of the tapestry’s two sides—the smooth front side and the messy reverse side—has long been assumed to illustrate the uneven relationship between an original and its translation. Following the lead of seventeenth-century English translator Leonard Digges, who urges readers to remember “the knots within” that make the tapestry possible, the article advocates for a method of reading backwards toward a history of translation …


Hosting Language: Immigration And Translation In The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Kathryn Vomero Santos Jul 2019

Hosting Language: Immigration And Translation In The Merry Wives Of Windsor, Kathryn Vomero Santos

Kathryn Vomero Santos

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