The Translator's Doubts : Vladimir Nabokov and the Ambiguity of Translation
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1618118293
ISBN-13
9781618118295
Publisher
Academic Studies Press
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Academic Studies Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 14th, 2018
Print length
248 Pages
Product Classification:
linguisticsLiterature: history & criticismLiterary studies: from c 1900 -
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Using Vladimir Nabokov as its ""case study"", this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. The book attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in Nabokov studies from its earlier emphasis on the ""metaliterary"" to the more recent ""metaphysical"" approach.
Using Vladimir Nabokov as its “case study,” this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. The book attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in Nabokov studies from its earlier emphasis on the “metaliterary” to the more recent “metaphysical” approach. Addressing specific texts (both literary and cinematic), the book investigates Nabokov’s deeply ambivalent relationship to translation as a hermeneutic oscillation on his part between the relative stability of meaning, which expresses itself philosophically as a faith in the beyond, and deep metaphysical uncertainty. While Nabokov’s practice of translation changes profoundly over the course of his career, his adherence to the Romantic notion of a “true” but ultimately elusive metaphysical language remained paradoxically constant.
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