Translation and Survival
Title | Translation and Survival PDF eBook |
Author | Tessa Rajak |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 400 |
Release | 2009-04-09 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0191609684 |
The translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek was the first major translation in Western culture. Its significance was far-reaching. Without a Greek Bible, European history would have been entirely different - no Western Jewish diaspora and no Christianity. Translation and Survival is a literary and social study of the ancient creators and receivers of the translations, and about their impact. The Greek Bible served Jews who spoke Greek, and made the survival of the first Jewish diaspora possible; indeed, the translators invented the term 'diaspora'. It was a tool for the preservation of group identity and for the expression of resistance. It invented a new kind of language and many new terms. The Greek Bible translations ended up as the Christian Septuagint, taken over along with the entire heritage of Hellenistic Judaism, during the process of the Church's long-drawn-out parting from the Synagogue. Here, a brilliant creation is restored to its original context and to its first owners.
Can These Bones Live?
Title | Can These Bones Live? PDF eBook |
Author | Bella Brodzki |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780804755429 |
Fundamentally concerned with the means by which translation ensures the afterlife of literary and cultural texts, this book examines multiple processes of translation, temporal and spatial, through acts of intercultural exchange and intergenerational transmission.
Survival
Title | Survival PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Y. Stern |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2021-03-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 081225287X |
For a world mired in catastrophe, nothing could be more urgent than the question of survival. In this theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking book, Adam Y. Stern calls for a critical reevaluation of survival as a contemporary regime of representation. In Survival, Stern asks what texts, what institutions, and what traditions have made survival a recognizable element of our current political vocabulary. The book begins by suggesting that the interpretive key lies in the discursive prominence of "Jewish survival." Yet the Jewish example, he argues, is less a marker of Jewish history than an index of Christianity's impact on the modern, secular, political imagination. With this inversion, the book repositions Jewish survival as the supplemental effect and mask of a more capacious political theology of Christian survival. The argument proceeds by taking major moments in twentieth-century philosophy, theology, and political theory as occasions for collecting the scattered elements of survival's theological-political archive. Through readings of canonical texts by secular and Jewish thinkers—Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, and Sigmund Freud—Stern shows that survival belongs to a history of debates about the sovereignty and subjection of Christ's body. Interrogating survival as a rhetorical formation, the book intervenes in discussions about biopolitics, secularism, political theology, and the philosophy of religion.
Worldwide Multilingual Phrase Book
Title | Worldwide Multilingual Phrase Book PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Dondero R. |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 247 |
Release | 2002-02-01 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9780971853317 |
The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Title | The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Rudolf Freiburg |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 2021-12-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030834220 |
The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive. The essays analyze survival in contemporary prose narratives, short stories, poems, dramas, and theoretical texts, but also in films and other modes of cultural practices. Addressing diverse topics such as memory and forgetting in Holocaust narratives, stories of refugees and asylum seekers, and representations of war, the ethical implications involved in survival in texts and media are brought into a transnational critical discussion. The volume will be of potential interest to a wide range of critics working on ethical issues, the body, and the politics of art and literature.
Allegory of Survival
Title | Allegory of Survival PDF eBook |
Author | Kang-baek Yi |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9781934043929 |
In the civil and government upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s in Korea, Kang-baek Lee began his distinguished playwriting career. He is perhaps best known as the premier writer of social commentary in the form of allegories in an effort to circumvent extremely strict censorship laws which were heavily enforced until 1989. However, Lee is not just an allegorist. He weaves Confucianism values throughout his works: affection between fathers and sons; justice; relationships between husbands and wives; deference to the elders; and trust. Through over forty works, Kang-baek Lee has played and continues to play a formidable role in South Korean theatre, but Western appreciation for his works has been limited to Europe. This present anthology introduces to an English-reading audience a playwright whose dedication to the truth could not be squashed by government censorship and whose imagination paved the path for many younger playwrights now at the forefront of South Korean theatre. This book provides insights into Kang-baek Lee as a person and the magnitude of his impact on Korean culture.
ILLUSTRATED SURVIVAL GUIDE - TRANSLATORS.
Title | ILLUSTRATED SURVIVAL GUIDE - TRANSLATORS. PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788875708856 |