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Tokens of Exchange
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 465

Tokens of Exchange

The problem of translation has become increasingly central to critical reflections on modernity and its universalizing processes. Approaching translation as a symbolic and material exchange among peoples and civilizations—and not as a purely linguistic or literary matter, the essays in Tokens of Exchange focus on China and its interactions with the West to historicize an economy of translation. Rejecting the familiar regional approach to non-Western societies, contributors contend that “national histories” and “world history” must be read with absolute attention to the types of epistemological translatability that have been constructed among the various languages and cultures in mo...

Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1536
Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1534
A-E
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1548

A-E

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1588
Exchanges between Literature and Science from the 1800s to the 2000s
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

Exchanges between Literature and Science from the 1800s to the 2000s

This collection of essays responds to the intense interest that the relations between the discourses of literature (and other cultural practices) and those of science have obtained throughout various fields of study. Spanning a period between the mid-nineteenth century and the twenty-first century, the work collected here is firmly focused on the cultural significance of scientific discoveries and practices, and especially on the manifold representations of science and scientists in literature and the arts. Its four sections develop from an initial moment of dwindling indefiniteness of borders between literature and the sciences to the historical perception of an increasing divide between ...

Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1484

Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 728

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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