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...David Bellos Apter Emily , Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability . ( London : Verso , 2013 ), 240 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

... and   edited not well Apter’s been has book years, several last the over journals or moreten different in published essays from Cobbled together (London: Verso, 2013),240pp. On thePolitics of Untranslatability Emily Apter, Against World Literature: doi...

... this in even   around utterances such plenty not are there enough (orwell not saying Iam you atdonot all). understand those are untranslatable truly are that expressions only The oaths. ormuttered tions...

...- cle closed on the outside—that truth and meaning are, in other words, local, untranslatable, and incommensurable with any knowledge obtainable across fron- tiers, whether those be spatial, cultural, or temporal. The “local knowledge” argu- ment arose not only to oppose...

...- cle closed on the outside—that truth and meaning are, in other words, local, untranslatable, and incommensurable with any knowledge obtainable across fron- tiers, whether those be spatial, cultural, or temporal. The “local knowledge” argu- ment arose not only to oppose...

... are in your own language (SP 414). Yolland s preference for the original reflects an appreciation for the untranslat- able essence of the Irish names and all that they communicate, along with a desire to retain the features that English cannot capture. When Yolland requests the original local place- names...

... of untranslatability. Rorty says of the opposing sides in a partic- ular dispute: “Both are right, but there is no way to make both speak a single lan- guage.” However, the most serious misunderstandings may arise—or so it seems to me, these days—when parties to a dispute speak...

...: get” terms into which they are translated. are they which into terms get” the “tar redefines that “source”concepts original ofthe atranslation concepts, of anewgroup is result The meaning. other, untranslatable oflight that in used being terms modern of the meaning...

... over speaking organisms can make matters more untranslatable, not more lucid or closer to being mapped. Thus an overly enthusiastic tumble into interdisciplin- arity in the humanities, which can mean shedding one’s own special, long-nur- tured...

... and the automatization of literal translation between languages, it is untranslatability (and The Disregardable “Second World” World” “Second Disregardable The nonequivalencies among languages: truly Bakhtinian polyglossia...

... prefix “s.” Without the “s,” the word would mean, simply, “timing” ( the“s.” “s,”prefix Withoutsimply, the word would mean, “timing” untranslatable...

... the untranslatable. Meaning, he argued, is dependent on the “context of situation” so that “the concept of context has to be broadened” to accommodate this point.39 Malinowski discussed material culture in terms sim- 36. Herbert Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation of History ledge...

... called the “contextual specification of meaning” and the problem of translating the untranslatable. Meaning, he argued, is dependent on the “context of situation” so that “the concept of context has to be broadened” to accommodate this point. 39 Malinowski discussed material culture in terms similar...

.... How can one be proud of nothing , of the emptiness of a territory inversely proportional in greatness to what it contains? Russian has words— privol'e , razdol'e , razgul'e —that, almost untranslatable into other languages, convey an emptiness that seems sometimes alluring and liberating...

... Kenner Kenner him to say, let me not miss the chance to observe that when a word turns out to be “untranslatable” we shall usually find that it has a special history inside the lan- guage in which it lives. Instead of designating a class, which we might diagram in space, it sums up an etymological...

... the contrast between Jewish Law and Christian Revelation. . . . In Suger's distich this antithesis—intimately connected with the contrast between light and darkness, day and night, sunrise and sunset, clear-sightedness and blindness . . . —is expressed by a sophisticated and almost untranslatable play upon...