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Nothing Human (Invited Paper For The Special Volume “Humanism, Cosmopolitanism, And The Ethics Of Translation"), C. C. Wharram
Nothing Human (Invited Paper For The Special Volume “Humanism, Cosmopolitanism, And The Ethics Of Translation"), C. C. Wharram
Charles C. Wharram
In this essay C. C. Wharram argues that Terence's concept of translation as a form of “contamination” anticipates recent developments in philosophy, ecology, and translation studies. Placing these divergent fields of inquiry into dialogue enables us read Terence's well-known statement “I am a human being — I deem nothing human alien to me” as a recognition of the significance of the “nothing human” for contemporary humanism. By recasting Terence's human/foreign pairing through Freud's concept of the uncanny, Wharram draws a parallel between a “nothing human” that is radically interior to the human subject and an exterior agency of “nothing human” …
Preface: Objects Of Translation(S), C. C. Wharram
Preface: Objects Of Translation(S), C. C. Wharram
Charles C. Wharram
In diverse ways, the scholars collected in this volume make compelling cases for expanding the repertoire of texts worthy of study in English classrooms to include translations. In this preface, I briefly introduce each of these six interventions, while examining how and why translation changes—or might prompt us to change—the way we approach the teaching of texts of British Romanticism in particular, and literature in general, within a planetary context. The scholars collected here reflect this global framework, not simply in that they work and teach in five different countries spanning four continents, but also in that they address planetary …
Desire In The Literary Field: Hagiography, History, And Anagrams In Kleist’S Der Findling, C. C. Wharram
Desire In The Literary Field: Hagiography, History, And Anagrams In Kleist’S Der Findling, C. C. Wharram
Charles C. Wharram
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“Translation As Symptom: The ‘Sickness’ Of The Romantic”, C. C. Wharram
“Translation As Symptom: The ‘Sickness’ Of The Romantic”, C. C. Wharram
Charles C. Wharram
No abstract provided.