Translation as Scholarship
Title | Translation as Scholarship PDF eBook |
Author | Jay Crisostomo |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 829 |
Release | 2019-01-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1501509756 |
In the first half of the 2d millennium BCE, translation occasionally depicted semantically incongruous correspondences. Such cases reflect ancient scribes substantiating their virtuosity with cuneiform writing by capitalizing on phonologic, graphemic, semantic, and other resemblances in the interlingual space. These scholar–scribes employed an essential scribal practice, analogical hermeneutics, an interpretative activity grounded in analogical reasoning and empowered by the potentiality of the cuneiform script. Scribal education systematized such practices, allowing scribes to utilize these habits in copying compositions and creating translations. In scribal education, analogical hermeneutics is exemplified in the word list "Izi", both in its structure and in its occasional bilingualism. By examining "Izi" as a product of the social field of scribal education, this book argues that scribes used analogical hermeneutics to cultivate their craft and establish themselves as knowledgeable scribes. Within a linguistic epistemology of cuneiform scribal culture, translation is a tool in the hands of a knowledgeable scholar.
Homer
Title | Homer PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780198147329 |
This book translates into English ten influential articles and extracts from books about Homer written in German over the past fifty years. The work of prestigious scholars such as Wolfgang Schadenwaldt, Karl Reinhardt, and Hermann Fraenkel are represented. These key works, which cover suchtopics as similes, the end of the Odyssey, the adventures of Odysseus, the meeting of Hector and Andromache, ring-composition, the Telemachy, and Homeric social life will now become easily accessible for the first time to teachers and scholars in the English-speaking world. An accompanyingintroduction develops the arguments in the light of contemporary scholarly concerns.
Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures
Title | Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures PDF eBook |
Author | David G. Nicholls |
Publisher | Modern Language Association |
Pages | 543 |
Release | 2015-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 160329239X |
The third edition of the MLA's widely used Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures features sixteen new essays by leading scholars. Designed to highlight relations among languages and forms of discourse, the volume is organized into three sections. "Understanding Language" provides an overview of the field of linguistics, with special attention to language acquisition and the social life of languages. "Forming Texts" offers tools for understanding how speakers and writers shape language; it examines scholarship in the distinct but interrelated fields of rhetoric, composition, and poetics. "Reading Literature and Culture" continues the work of the first two sections by introducing major areas of critical study. The nine essays in this section cover textual and historical scholarship; interpretation; comparative, cultural, and translation studies; and the interdisciplinary topics of gender, sexuality, race, and migrations (among others). As in previous volumes, an epilogue examines the role of the scholar in contemporary society. Each essay discusses the significance, underlying assumptions, and limits of an important field of inquiry; traces the historical development of its subject; introduces key terms; outlines modes of research now being pursued; postulates future developments; and provides a list of suggestions for further reading. This book will interest any member of the academic community seeking a review of recent scholarship, while it provides an indispensable resource for undergraduate and graduate students of modern languages and literatures.
Translation as Scholarship
Title | Translation as Scholarship PDF eBook |
Author | C. Jay Crisostomo |
Publisher | de Gruyter |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781501516665 |
For ancient cuneiform scribes, translation was a means of demonstrating their aptitude with the main focus of their discipline, the cuneiform writing system, resulting in translation practices that are foreign to typical western concepts of translat
The Hera of Zeus
Title | The Hera of Zeus PDF eBook |
Author | Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 405 |
Release | 2022-01-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108841031 |
Rethinks the workings of polytheism in ancient Greece through exploring the goddess Hera in her complex relationship to Zeus.
The Enlightenment Bible
Title | The Enlightenment Bible PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Sheehan |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2007-07-22 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0691130698 |
How did the Bible survive the Enlightenment? In this book, Jonathan Sheehan shows how Protestant translators and scholars in the eighteenth century transformed the Bible from a book justified by theology to one justified by culture. In doing so, the Bible was made into the cornerstone of Western heritage and invested with meaning, authority, and significance even for a secular age. The Enlightenment Bible offers a new history of the Bible in the century of its greatest crisis and, in turn, a new vision of this century and its effects on religion. Although the Enlightenment has long symbolized the corrosive effects of modernity on religion, Sheehan shows how the Bible survived, and even thrived in this cradle of ostensible secularization. Indeed, in eighteenth-century Protestant Europe, biblical scholarship and translation became more vigorous and culturally significant than at any time since the Reformation. From across the theological spectrum, European scholars--especially German and English--exerted tremendous energies to rejuvenate the Bible, reinterpret its meaning, and reinvest it with new authority. Poets, pedagogues, philosophers, literary critics, philologists, and historians together built a post-theological Bible, a monument for a new religious era. These literati forged the Bible into a cultural text, transforming the theological core of the Judeo-Christian tradition. In the end, the Enlightenment gave the Bible the power to endure the corrosive effects of modernity, not as a theological text but as the foundation of Western culture.
Poetry & Translation
Title | Poetry & Translation PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Robinson |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1846312183 |
`The conviction, pleasures and gratitude of committed reading are evident in his affirmation of the poetic contract between readers and writers.' Andrea Brady, Poetry Review --