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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Main Author: Stavans, Ilan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : State University of New York, [2018]
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781438471501
1438471505
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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.