The Afterlife of Texts in Translation Understanding the Messianic in Literature /

• Main Author: Chapman, Edmund (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature-Translations.; Comparative literature.; Literature .; Postmodernism.; Motion pictures.; Translation and interpretation.; Translation Studies.; Comparative Literature.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; Postmodern Philosophy.; Adaptation Studies.; Translation.

The Afterlife of Texts in Translation: Understanding the Messianic in Literature reads Walter Benjamin's and Jacques Derrida's writings on translation as suggesting that texts exist within a process of continual translation. Understanding Benjamin's and Derrida's concept of '...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter One: Introduction
• Chapter Two: Afterlife
• Chapter Three: The Overtext
• Chapter Four: Language, Judgment, Colonialism
• Chapter Five: The Messianic
• Chapter Six: Pierre Menard, Messianic Translator
• Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Overliving and the Encounter with the Other.