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Wilson, Philip 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1207-3912
(2024)
Translation and Mysticism:The Rose and the Wherefore.
Routledge, London.
ISBN 978-1-032-18241-4
Abstract
This book examines how mysticism can tell us about translation and translation can tell us about mysticism, addressing the ancient but ongoing connections between the art of rendering one text in another language and the art of the ineffable. The volume represents the first sustained act of attention to the interdisciplinary crossover of these two fields, taking a Wittgensteinian approach to language, and investigates how mystics and their translators manage to write about what cannot be written about. Three questions are addressed overall: how mysticism can be used to conceptualise translation; the issues that mysticism raises for translation theory and practice; and how mystical texts have been and might be translated. Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Translator’s Task’ is considered in detail as a controversial example of dialogue. Translation examples are given in a range of languages, and six major case studies are included, including a close reading of Exodus and an analysis of a recent radical translation of Lucretius. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in translation studies, mysticism studies, theology and literary translation, as well as practising translators.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | translation,mysticism,translation studies,wittgenstein,arts and humanities(all),social sciences(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > British Centre for Literary Translation Research Group |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 22 May 2024 15:30 |
| Last Modified: | 28 May 2024 16:31 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/95285 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003253549 |
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