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A post and discussion over at Sparkle*Matrix, entitled “‘even dead women can look sexy …’“, expresses the requisite horror and indignation over the America’s Next Top Model photo shoot where the contestants were tasked to simulate dead, but sexy, poses. Sparklematrix links to a slideshow matched with the judges’ comments, to swiftly expel any doubts [...]
Paul De Man notes Harold Bloom’s insight that with respect to one poet’s influence on a later one, “the encounter must take place and that it takes precedence over any other events, biographical or historical, in the poet’s experience.
This means that texts originate in contact with other texts rather than in contact with the events [...]
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Translation studies: a traditional theory stretching back to Schliermacher and still very much with us, frames the central question as: if all translation is “bringing over,” what is being translated and where is it going? Does the translator bring the “target” language to the “source” language, or vice versa? Whats at stake in any given [...]
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