Against world literature : on the politics of untranslatability / Emily Apter.
The book engages in a polemical critique of recent efforts to revive World Literature models of literary studies (Moretti, Casanova, etc) on the grounds that they construct their curricula on an assumption of translatability. As a result, incommensurability and what Apter calls the "untranslatable"...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Verso,
2013.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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