On Translation

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On Translation (Thinking in Action) by Paul Ricoeur

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One of the most distinguished and prolific philosophers of his generation.
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–The Daily Telegraph

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One of the most distinguished and prolific philosophers of his generation.
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–The Daily Telegraph

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Paul Ricoeur is described in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy as "one of the leading French philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century." This little book collects his thoughts on the subject of translation, and is vintage Ricoeur. He uses the topic to reflect on some of the perennial problems posed by translation, including the transmission of early Greek philosophy to the Renaissance, interpretations of the Bible amongst diverse religious traditions (no small issue at the moment), and the way translations of the same text reflect important cultural dynamics at work across different periods, leading to quite different meanings springing from the same book. There are also discussions of some contemporary figures, such as Umberto Eco, and the whole underscored by Ricoeur's point that there is a paradox at the hear of translation: impossible in theory but effective in practice.

Orhan Pamuk - Documentary

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A presentation of the life and work of Orhan Pamuk, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature.

Dylan Thomas - DO NOT GO

Dylan Thomas

DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT

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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light

The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia

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The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia

by Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos (Editor), Stephen J. Adams (Editor)

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More than 250 signed entries by almost 100 contributors present a range of topics from the life and writings of one of the literary giants of modernism. Many entries have bibliographies for further reading. Topics include the people who came in contact with Pound; his writings, poetics, interests, influences, and various aspects of his philosophy; and identity, including entries treating religion, sexuality and misogyny, fascism, racism and anti-Semitism. About 75 entries treat the people in Pound's life, including T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, D. H. Lawrence, Marianne Moore, Rabindranath Tagore, and W. B. Yeats. Pound's interests and influences are discussed in entries on Chinese, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian and Slavic, and Spanish literature as well as Pound's translations. Significant attention is given to Pound's critical reception, divided by time period from 1908 to 2000. Most entries include a bibliography, and the encyclopedia portion of the book is followed by a selected bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

Although other reference works may provide information regarding many of the people and publications listed, one of the treats of the encyclopedia is its specificity. An example is the entry on Periplum, which details the derivation and use in The Cantos of one of Pound's "signature words." This is not to say the current work is without omission: there is no separate entry in the encyclopedia or the index for Imagism, for instance; the reader must know to go articles such as Critical reception: 1908-1920 and Des Imagistes. The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia is useful, given the author's sprawling body of work and influence, but walks a line between reference, given its arrangement, and circulating collections, given its specificity. Perhaps it is best used alongside other standard reference works, including the Cambridge Companions, Oxford Companions, and the Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism (Greenwood, 2003). Recommended for academic and large public libraries. Joseph Thomas
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

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Edited by two Pound scholars, this encyclopedia aims not only "to provide materials to help orient new readers of Pound and Modernism but also to refresh even experienced readers." For the most part, this work achieves its goals. Its strengths are providing brief summaries and the historical context for Pound's works. Other entries include key modernist figures and their relation to Pound, his family members, historical and literary eras, and Pound's controversial views on topics like fascism and anti-semitism. Topical entries, written mostly by scholars, range from a half page to three pages, and typically end with sources for further research. An extensive selected bibliography and an index appear at the end....[t]his resource provides a useful compass for navigating the difficult terrain of Pound's oeuvre and life. Recommended. Academic libraries supporting courses in modernism; upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers.Choice

While this encyclopedia barely touches the depths of an amazingly complex and prolific poet, it provides an excellent starting point and road map for further research. Recommended for academic libraries supporting undergraduate and graduate students of literature.Library Journal

[T]he entries ... are succinct, informative and well written... Value for money, The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia should be in all libraries collecting materials on twentieth century American, British and world literatures.Reference Reviews

The goal of the encyclopedia is to help orient new readers of Pound and Modernism, but at the same time to refresh even experienced readers, by limiting the number of articles to the most important and informative and referring readers to more specialized works for further study of any particular aspect. All of his major works are cited, along with such other topics as Anglo-Saxon translation, architecture, Chinese literature, E.E. Cummings, economics, Faber and Faber (publishers), Allan Ginsburg, Ernest Hemingway, Italian literature, law and social justice, and misogyny.Reference & Research Book News

[A] recommended pick for specialty college collections: Pound's work changed the course of poetry and made him one of the 20th century's greatest writers, and here are hundreds of A-Z entries referencing his works, influences, and interests. About a hundred expert contributors provide entries perfect for quick reference, many quite detailed and lengthy, which will also lend to student papers.MBR Bookwatch

Although other reference works may provide information regarding many of the people and publications listed, one of the treats of the encyclopedia is its specificity. An example is the entry on Periplum, which details the the derivation and use in The Cantos of one of Pound's "signature words."...The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia is useful, given the author's sprawling body of work and influence....Recommended for academic and large public libraries.Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

[E]ncompasses the life, influences, and writings of this controversial American modernist poet.C&RL News

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Ezra Pound forever changed the course of poetry. His vast body of poetry and critical works make him one of the 20th century's most prolific writers, and his influence has shaped later poets, great and small. His enormous range of references, deliberate obscurity, and use of multiple languages make him one of the most difficult authors and-- because of his Fascism, anti-Semitism, and questionable sanity--one of the most controversial figures in American literary history. This encyclopedia is a concise yet comprehensive guide to his life and writings. Included are more than 250 alphabetically arranged entries on Pound's acquaintances, publications, and interests, including:

Olivia Rossetti Agresti

Arabic History

Catholic Anthology

Chinese Literature

Dance

Des Imagistes

Hilda Doolittle

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Fascist Quarterly

Robert Frost

Homage to Sextus Propertius

James Joyce

And many others. The entries are written by roughly 100 expert contributors and cite works for further reading. In addition, the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography.

About the Author
DEMETRES P. TRYPHONOPOULOS is Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick. He is the author of The Celestial Tradition: A Study of Ezra Pound's Cantos (1992), and has coedited Literary Modernism and the Occult Tradition (1996), and "I Cease Not to Yowl": Ezra Pound's Letters to Olivia Rossetti Agresti (1998). STEPHEN J. ADAMS is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. He has published on Pound's music and prosody, and his books include R. Murray Schafer (1984), and Poetic Designs: An Introduction to English Meters, Verse Forms, and Figures of Speech (1997).

The Literary Absolute

The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy

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Dada Culture: Critical Texts on the Avant-Garde

Dada Culture: Critical Texts on the Avant-Garde
by Dafydd Jones

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How Dada is to break its cultural accommodation and containment today necessitates thinking the historical instances through revised application of critical and theoretical models. The volume Dada Culture: Critical Texts on the Avant-Garde moves precisely by this motive, bringing together writings which insist upon the continuity of the early twentieth century moment now at the start of the twenty-first. Engaging the complex and contradictory nature of Dada strategies, instanced in the linguistic gaming and performativity of the movement’s initial formation, and subsequently isolating the specific from the general with essays focusing on Ball, Tzara, Serner, Hausmann, Dix, Heartfield, Schwitters, Baader, Cravan and the exemplary Duchamp, the political philosophy of the avant-garde is brought to bear upon our own contemporary struggle through critical theory to comprehend the cultural usefulness, relevance, validity and effective (or otherwise) oppositionality of Dada’s infamous anti-stance.

The volume is presented in sections that progressively point towards the expanding complexity of the contemporary engagement with Dada, as what is often exhaustive historical data is forced to rethink, realign and reconfigure itself in response to the analytical rigour and exercise of later twentieth-century animal anarchic thought, the testing and cultural placement of thoughts upon the virtual, and the eventual implications for the once blissfully unproblematic idea of expression. From the opening, provocative proposition that historically Dada may have been the falsest of all false paths, the volume rounds to dispute such condemnation as demarcation continues not only of Dada’s embeddedness in western culture, but more precisely of the location of Dada culture.

Ten critical essays – by Cornelius Partsch, John Wall, T. J. Demos, Anna Schaffner, Martin I. Gaughan, Curt Germundson, Stephen C. Foster, Dafydd Jones, Joel Freeman and David Cunningham – are supplemented by the critical bibliography prepared by Timothy Shipe, which documents the past decade of Dada scholarship, and in so doing provides a valuable resource for all those engaged in Dada studies today.

Christian Attitudes toward the Jews in the Middle Ages

Christian Attitudes toward the Jews in the Middle Ages: A Casebook by Michael Frassetto (Editor)

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Drawing from an equally wide range of sources-sermons, polemical texts, theological treatises, hagiographical and devotional works, and histories-the volume demonstrates the emergence of a profoundly negative image of the Jews that established many of the stereotypes of classic Christian anti-Semitism. The volume, in particular, argues that the essential turning point in relations between Christians and Jews occurred in the eleventh century, especially the early eleventh century when the first wave of persecutions of the Jews took place. Note on non teleological nature of development although the prominent theme explored in this volume is the emergence of the medieval anti-Jewish tradition, several chapters will show that open hostility toward the Jews and the development of negative stereotypes of the Jew were not the only components of Jewish and Christian relations during the High Middle Ages. Indeed, in its investigation into a broad range of secular and theological sources, this volume reveals not only the emergence of a Christian anti-Jewish tradition in the Middle Ages but also reveals a more open and positive understanding that some medieval writers had of the Jews and their place in history and society.
Like other volumes in the Routledge Medieval Casebooks series, this book will be produced in hardback only, and will be aimed primarily at academic libraries with Medieval Studies, Religion, and Jewish Studies collection