On self-translation : meditations on language /
Finalist for the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Essay category From award-winning, internationally known scholar and translator Ilan Stavans comes On Self-Translation, a collection of essays and conversations on language in its multifaceted forms. Stavans discusses the way synta...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
State University of New York,
[2018]
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| ISBN: | 9781438471501 1438471505 |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Meeting The "I"
- On Self-Translation
- Part II: Meditations
- Alphabetizing
- As It Were
- Parable of Don Quixote
- Finger Snapping
- The Tenure Code
- Transadaptation
- Ellipses and I
- On Clarity-- Auto-corrected
- Part III: Beyond Words
- On Being Misunderstood
- Part I: The Lecture-- Part II: The Response
- Against Representation
- The Monkey Grammarian
- Midrash on Truth
- Don Quixote in Schlemieland
- Dying in Hebrew
- The Reading Life of Ricardo Piglia
- Adioś, Chespirito
- Part IV: On Futb́ol-- "Sudden Death"-- Van Persie's Goal-- Box of Resonance
- Part V: Language And Politics
- Trump and the Wall-- Why Doesn't English Have an Academy?-- Shakespeare in Prison-- The Spanish Language in Latin America Since Independence
- Against "Diversity"-- Rolling One's R's-- Part VI: Conversations
- The Poet's Alchemy (with Richard Wilbur)
- On Silence (with Charles Hatfield)
- Translating Cervantes (with Diana de Armas Wilson)
- The Color of Existence (with Ryan Mihaly)
- The Downpour of Inspiration (with Asymptote)
- The Translingual Sensibility (with Steven G. Kellman)
- Rescuing the Classics (with Lydia Davis)-- Part VII: Onto Spanglish-- Un Walker En Nuyol
- Hamlet, Acto 2, Scene Dos [fragment] and Acto 3, Scene Uno
- El Little Prińcipe, Chapters I-IV
- Don Quixote, Parte II Chapter 72
- Spanglish and The Royal Academy.