Philip Wilson

Translation and Mysticism (eBook, ePUB)

The Rose and the Wherefore

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the ways in which mysticism can tell us about translation and translation can tell us about mysticism, addressing the ancient but ongoing connections between the art of rendering one text in another language and the art of the ineffable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040022054
• Artikelnr.: 70228643

Autorenporträt

Philip Wilson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Translation at the University of East Anglia, UK, where he teaches Religion and World Philosophies, Philosophy Meets the Arts and Translation Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Gold and Crystal

1. Becoming Present

1.1 Translation and Mysticism

1.2 The Ineffable

1.3 Case study: Reading Mystical Texts for Translation

2. Eternity

2.1 Problem or Mystery?

2.2 Grammar

2.3 Case study: Moses and the Burning Bush

3. The Sounding of the Song

3.1 Translation and Gnosis

3.2 The Translator and the Task

3.3 Case study: Friedrich Hölderlin and Sophocles

4. Light from Darkness

4.1 Discovery, Construction and Declaration

4.2 Translation as Attention

4.3 Case study: Willis Barnstone and John of the Cross

5. Becoming the Script

5.1 Untranslatability

5.2 Translation as Performance

5.3 Case study: Translating the Spell

6. The Rose and the Wherefore

6.1 Problem and Mystery

6.2 Moving On

6.3 Case study: Emma Gee and Lucretius

Epilogue: Staying in the Sun