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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (4): 761–774.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Michał Mrugalski Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz Tamara , Modernist Translation: An Eastern European Perspective;Models, Semantics, Functions . Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang , 2016 . 376 pp. Copyright © 2018 Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2018 References...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (2): 435–452.
Published: 01 June 2001
... Breytenbach himself has been dismissive of the cultural productivity of his work, especially of the youthful rebelliousness of the work associated with the so-called Sestiger movement, the treason/translation of Confessions blazes a trail for a new politics of Afrikaans by insisting on the language's...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 303–323.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Naomi Seidman The 1941 Yiddish translation of the New Testament by Henry Einspruch marked a turning point in the history of Yiddish translations of the New Testament aimed at proselytizing Jews. Breaking free from a centuries-long tradition in which Yiddish translators relied heavily on German...
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (2): 309–316.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Hoyt Long [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024  literary translation machine translation generative AI ChatGPT When ChatGPT went viral in late 2022, it felt to many as if once far-off science fictions had become present...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (2): 243–259.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Karin Kukkonen Comparative literature and cognitive literary studies both consider literature as a worldwide phenomenon. The move toward world literature in comparative literature made salient the issue of reading some texts in translation, and world literature turned its attention to whether texts...
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Poetics Today (2020) 41 (3): 469–471.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Taylor Johnston Reference Benjamin Walter . 1969 . “ The Task of the Translator .” In Illuminations: Essays and Reflections , translated by Zohn Harry , 69 – 82 . New York : Schocken Books . Book Review Talal Asad, Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (3): 501–568.
Published: 01 September 2006
... is used to show how Woolf's work evolved as a frame of reference for literary critics and essayists. Woolf's translation and publishing history is analyzed in terms of changing strategies and shifting interests on these fronts. Reconstruction of values that underlie judgments in reviews of Woolf's work...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (3): 569–596.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Gillian Gane Much postcolonial literature depends on unacknowledged processes of translation working like the “radio” in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children that magically renders all Indian languages intelligible to the children of midnight. It is surprisingly difficult to determine what...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (1): 49–78.
Published: 01 March 2008
... on the imagination of the beholder of photographs, and the more skeptical photographic readings in Maron's novel illustrate that photos can also be used to block off incommensurate times and spaces. The meaningful layout pattern established by both authors is broken up in the English translation of their works...
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Poetics Today (2018) 39 (2): 319–335.
Published: 01 June 2018
...David Kennedy First, I survey ideas of translation, intersemiosis, and intermediality drawing on the work of European scholars. These include Roman Jakobson and his 1959 definition of intersemiosis as “an interpretation of verbal signs by means of non-verbal sign systems” ( Jakobson 2000 [1959...
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Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 211–224.
Published: 01 September 2014
... and cumulative, is also evident in recent studies of modern Yiddish literature that pay close attention to linguistic dimensions of Yiddish writing. This is exemplified by the subjects that have engaged scholars of modern Yiddish literature over the past two decades: canon formation, translation theory...
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Poetics Today (2021) 42 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Adam R. Rosenthal Beginning in 2008, with the French publication of volume 1 of The Beast and the Sovereign, Éditions Galilée, the University of Chicago Press, and an international editorial team initiated the process of editing, publishing, and translating, in reverse chronological order...
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Poetics Today (2004) 25 (1): 29–66.
Published: 01 March 2004
.... The consequent suppression, or translation to secular terms, of films' spiritual aspirations comes at great cost. Complex works that address spiritual topics in form and content, such as Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996), are treated as evidence by a self-affirming and secularizing critical method...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 311–330.
Published: 01 June 2006
... their potency. To convey Holocaust memory now, some survivors call upon narrative conventions, applying archetypal images or referring to Holocaust stories already told. Other survivors avoid specifics, partly out of concern for the listener. Still others translate their private memories of horror...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (2): 309–351.
Published: 01 June 2008
... Western offshoot, the Seven Sages of Rome , in which narrative use is of central significance. I focus more particularly on a tale embedded in the Eastern Book of Sindibad , “The Merchant and the Rogues,” which was adapted and translated into Middle English in the form of the fifteenth-century Tale...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (1): 55–105.
Published: 01 March 2016
...; they sometimes also prompt us to physically revisit pages we have already turned. While many Proust scholars have commented on this perplexing quality of the work and theorists of rereading have offered partial accounts of it, no one has explained for what purpose A la recherche du temps perdu (translated...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (4): 711–749.
Published: 01 December 2000
... is a dramatic monologue in which the narrator manifests (un)reliability through verbalization of a visual artwork (through ekphrasis , in short). Here the difficulties of translating between media or art forms intersect with those of managing a quote within a quote. Semiotic and perspectival complexities...
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Poetics Today (2001) 22 (1): 41–63.
Published: 01 March 2001
..., translation strategies, multilingual word play, and other techniques. Ammons, Elizabeth, and Valerie Rohy 1998 “Introduction” to American Local Color Writing,1880–1920 (London: Penguin). Bakhtin, M. M. 1981 [1975] The Dialogic Imagination , translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist(Austin...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (3): 403–460.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Mark J. Bruhn Theory of literature, literary criticism and interpretation, literary and cultural history, semiotics of culture, linguistics, rhetoric and communications, cultural anthropology, cognitive studies, translation theory:... the common denominator of all this diversity is the ambition...
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Poetics Today (2015) 36 (1-2): 59–110.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of the “hermeneutics of suspicion” and her call for a more positive approach to literary analysis. The counterthesis about the interaction between German Jewish and Yiddish writers stresses the productive aspects of translation and transmission. Such a new approach, if not wholly free from the “hermeneutics...