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Author Stavans, Ilan, author.

Title On Self-Translation : Meditations on Language / Ilan Stavans.

Publication Info. New York : State University of New York, [2018]
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022.
©[2018]

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Description 1 online resource (284 pages).
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Series Suny series in Latin America and Iberian thought and culture
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Contents Intro; Contents; Preface; Part I: Meeting The "I"; On Self-Translation; Part II: Meditations; Alphabetizing; As It Were; Parable of Don Quixote; Finger Snapping; The Tenure Code; Transadaptation; Ellipses and I; On Clarity; Auto-corrected; Part III: Beyond Words; On Being Misunderstood; Part I: The Lecture; Part II: The Response; Against Representation; The Monkey Grammarian; Midrash on Truth; Don Quixote in Schlemieland; Dying in Hebrew; The Reading Life of Ricardo Piglia; Adiós, Chespirito; Part IV: On Fútbol; "Sudden Death"; Van Persie's Goal; Box of Resonance
Part V: Language And PoliticsTrump and the Wall; Why Doesn't English Have an Academy?; Shakespeare in Prison; The Spanish Language in Latin America Since Independence; Castellano, Español, or Españoles?; Andres Bello: The Philologist's Task; Toward a Modern Tongue; The Embattled Real Academia Española: The Question of Regionalisms; The Power of Variety; Against "Diversity"; Rolling One's R's; Part VI: Conversations; The Poet's Alchemy (with Richard Wilbur); On Silence (with Charles Hatfield); Translating Cervantes (with Diana de Armas Wilson); The Color of Existence (with Ryan Mihaly)
The Downpour of Inspiration (with Asymptote)The Translingual Sensibility (with Steven G. Kellman); Rescuing the Classics (with Lydia Davis); Part VII: Onto Spanglish; Un Walker En Nuyol; [1] From El Gueto; [2] To the Subway; [3] The Big Wong; [4] Is this Queens?; [5] Carpe Diem; Hamlet, Acto 2, Scene Dos [fragment] and Acto 3, Scene Uno; Acto 2, Scene Dos [Fragment]; Acto 3, Scene Uno; El Little Príncipe, Chapters I-IV; Don Quixote, Parte Ii, Chapter 72; Spanglish and The Royal Academy; About the Author; Index
Local Note Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Access Open Access Unrestricted online access
Subject Self-translation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Readers.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Multi-Language Phrasebooks.
Autotraduction.
Self-translation.
Genre/Form Electronic books. .
Added Author Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN 9781438471495
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9781438471501
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