{"product_id":"the-translatability-of-cultures-9780804724845","title":"The Translatability of Cultures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese essays-which consider a wide variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to contemporary Japan- describe the conditions under which cultures that do not dominate each other may yet achieve a limited translatability of cultures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors  Crisis of alterity: cultural untranslatability and the experience of secondary otherness Sanford Budick  Part I. Perspectives in History: 1. Translating Gods: religion as a factor of cultural (un)translatability Jan Assman  2. Visual syncretism: a case study Moshe Barasch  3. Translatio studii and renaissance: from vertical to horizontal translation Karlheinz Stierle  4. Augustine, Chaucer, and the translation of biblical poetics Lawrence Besserman  5. The curse and blessing of babel  or, looking back on universalism Aleida Assmann  6. Emerson's constitutional amending: reading 'fate' Stanley Cavell  7. The holocaust and the construction of modern American literary criticism: the case of Lionel Trilling Emily Miller Budick  8. Discovering America: a cross-cultural perspective Sacvan Bercovitch  9. 'It is time': the Buber-Rosenzweig bible translation in context Klaus Reichert  10. The black hole of culture: Japan, radical otherness, and the disappearance of difference (or, 'In Japan everything normal') K. Ludwig Pfeiffer  Part II. Models of Relationship: 11. Border crossings, translating theory: Ruth J. Hillis Miller  12. Cross-culture, Chiasmus, and the manifold of mind Sanford Budick  13. The emergence of a cross-cultural discourse: Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus Wolfgang Iser  14. Memory and cultural translation Gabriel Motzkin  15. Remarks on the foreign (strange) as a figure of cultural ambivalence Renate Lachmann  16. Coda to the discussion Wolfgang Iser  Notes  Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405503734103,"sku":"9780804724845","price":98.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804724845.jpg?v=1730492151","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-translatability-of-cultures-9780804724845","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}