Author: Budick, Sanford & Iser, Wolfgang; editors:
Title: The Translatability of Cultures : Figurations of the Space Between
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1996. orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xiv, 348 pp. Slight binding corner bumps. Some page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contains 17 papers. Includes: S. Budick "Crises of Alterity: Cultural Untranslatability & the Experience of Secondary Otherness"; J. Assmann " Translating Gods: Religion as a Factor of Cultural (Un)Translatability"; M.Barasch "Visual Syncretism: A Case Study"; K. Stierle "Translatio Studii & Renaissance: From Vertical to Horizontal Translation"; L. Besserman " Augustine, Chaucer & the Translation of Biblical Poetics"; A. Assmann "The Curse & Blessing of Babel; or, Looking Back on Universalisms"; S. Cavell " Emerson's Constitutional Amending: Reading 'Fate' "; E.M. Budick "The Holocaust & the Construction of Modern American Literary Criticism: The Case of Lionel Trilling"; S. Bercovitch "Discovering America: A Cross- Cultural Perspective"; K. Reichert " 'It Is Time': The Buber- Rosenzweig Bible Translation in Context"; K.L. Pfeiffer "The Black Hole of Culture: Japan, Radical Otherness, & the Disappearance of Difference (or, 'In Japan Everything Normal')"; etc.

Keywords: Comparative Literature, Literary Criticism, Translation, Cross-Cultural, Critical Theory, Translating, Interpreting, ,