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Published: 03 October 2007
DOI: 10.1215/9780822390640-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9064-0
Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Published: 26 June 2006
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387961-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8796-1
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By James Applewhite
Published: 04 July 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387008-065
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8700-8
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By Chuck Eddy
Published: 12 August 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7389-6
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By Vicente L. Rafael
Published: 01 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374572-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7457-2
...Weaponizing Babel The relationship between translation and empire in the United States is the topic of this chapter. It argues that such a relationship cannot be understood apart from a critical appreciation of the history of Americanization, which is to say translation, of English from...
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By Eliot Borenstein
Published: 01 January 2001
DOI: 10.1215/9780822379904-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7990-4
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
Published: 01 January 1992
DOI: 10.1215/9780822381747-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8174-7
Published: 28 July 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376873-119
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7687-3
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By Adele Marie Barker, Isaac Babel, Bruce Grant
Series: The World Readers
Published: 01 January 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392583-055
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9258-3
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By Vicente L. Rafael
Published: 01 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7457-2
... translation American English Noah Webster Babel war on terror Iraqi interpreters ...
Published: 01 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374572-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7457-2
.... translation American English Noah Webster Babel war on terror Iraqi interpreters ...
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By Michael Dutton
Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Published: 01 September 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5918-9
...Becoming Modern Where China moved from revolutionary intensity to the market, energy dissipation in the West took a different route. The flow of energy in the West is traced from Babel’s desire for a recovery of “the word” through to the desire for material objects and empire promoted...
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By Michael Dutton
Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Published: 01 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059189-013
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5918-9
... a form of violent intensity, Tatlin’s Tower could be said to combine a heavy dose of functionalism with telluric mythology. If the Babel-like exoskeleton of Tatlin’s Tower reveals the intensity of the theological, its internal vault system shows the rationality of science and what Svetlana Boym once...
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By Michael Dutton
Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Published: 01 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059189-011
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5918-9
... Where China moved from revolutionary intensity to the market, energy dissipation in the West took a different route. The flow of energy in the West is traced from Babel’s desire for a recovery of “the word” through to the desire for material objects and empire promoted in the Crystal Palace...
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By Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez
Published: 28 February 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060475-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6047-5
... for local plant names—a position reinforced by his time in the Philippines. For generations, the nomenclatural vernacular necessitated the creation of a global language to bring comprehensibility to the Babel of local names, a characterization used by scientists and historians alike. This chapter focuses...
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By Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez
Published: 28 February 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6047-5
... in the Philippines. For generations, the nomenclatural vernacular necessitated the creation of a global language to bring comprehensibility to the Babel of local names, a characterization used by scientists and historians alike. This chapter focuses, instead, on a moment when a vernacular exposed the Latin babble...