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"In Babel’s Shadow is at once an important contribution to translation studies, a pointed intervention in current debates on world literature, and a searching meditation on the politics of literary study today. Through incisive readings of a wide range of multilingual writers and critics, Brian Lennon brilliantly unfolds the challenges that ‘strong plurilingualism’ poses to readers, publishers, and critics alike. In Babel’s Shadow will make sobering—and inspiring—reading for anyone interested in the politics of literature in a multilingual world." —David Damrosch, Harvard University



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Preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Antinomies of Literature, 1. Language as Capital, 2. Translation Being Between, 3. Containment, 4. Language Memoir and Language Death, 5. The Other Other Literature Afterword: Unicode and Totality, Notes, Index

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 19/05/2010
      ISBN13: 9780816665020, 978-0816665020
      ISBN10: 0816665028

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      Book Synopsis


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      "In Babel’s Shadow is at once an important contribution to translation studies, a pointed intervention in current debates on world literature, and a searching meditation on the politics of literary study today. Through incisive readings of a wide range of multilingual writers and critics, Brian Lennon brilliantly unfolds the challenges that ‘strong plurilingualism’ poses to readers, publishers, and critics alike. In Babel’s Shadow will make sobering—and inspiring—reading for anyone interested in the politics of literature in a multilingual world." —David Damrosch, Harvard University



      Table of Contents
      Preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Antinomies of Literature, 1. Language as Capital, 2. Translation Being Between, 3. Containment, 4. Language Memoir and Language Death, 5. The Other Other Literature Afterword: Unicode and Totality, Notes, Index

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