The Afterlife of Texts in Translation

Understanding the Messianic in Literature

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Edmund Chapman

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The Afterlife of Texts in Translation: Understanding the Messianic in Literature reads Walter Benjamin’s and Jacques Derrida’s writings on translation as suggesting that texts exist within a process of continual translation. Understanding Benjamin’s and Derrida’s concept of ‘afterlife’ as ‘overliving’, this book proposes that reading Benjamin’s and Derrida’s writings on translation in terms of their wider thought on language and history suggests that textuality itself possesses a ‘messianic’ quality. Developing this idea in relation to the many rewritings and translations of Don Quijote, particularly the multiple rewritings by Jorge Luis Borges, Edmund Chapman asserts that texts consist of a structure of potential for endless translation that continually promises the overcoming of language, history and textuality itself.

Author Biography:

Edmund Chapman has taught English Literature and French at the University of Manchester, UK. He is a co-editor of New Voices in Translation Studies.

Release date NZ

November 28th, 2019

Author

Edmund Chapman

Pages

140

Edition

1st ed. 2019

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

1 Illustrations, black and white; VIII, 140 p. 1 illus.

ISBN-13

9783030324513

Product ID

31452540

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