The Strange Loops of Translation

Douglas Robinson

• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Anno: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781501382437
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Literature
• Categoria: Literary Criticism Theory

One of the most exciting theories to emerge from cognitive science research over the past few decades has been Douglas Hofstadter's notion of "strange loops, " from Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979). Hofstadter is also an active literary translator who has written about translation, perhaps most notably in his 1997 book Le Ton Beau de Marot, where he draws on his cognitive science research. And yet he has never considered the possibility that translation might itself be a strange loop. In this book Douglas Robinson puts Hofstadter's strange-loops theory into dialogue with a series of definitive theories of translation, in the process showing just how cognitively and affectively complex an activity translation actually is.

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Pandemonial Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 The Strange Loops of (Non)Equivalence
• 2 The Strange Loops of the Translator-Function
• 3 The Strange Loops of Translation as (Peri)Performative Identities
• 4 The Strange Loops of Translating Bodies
• Conclusion: The Strange Loops of Translation as Transgressive Circulations: Johannes Göransson
• Notes
• References
• Index
• Imprint