Beyond translation : essays towards a modern philology
著者
書誌事項
Beyond translation : essays towards a modern philology
University of Michigan Press, 2000, c1995
1st paperback ed
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全7件
注記
Collection of sixteen previously published essays, 1974-1993
Includes bibliographical references and index
収録内容
- pt. 1. Text building in Javanese
- pt. 2. Some Burmese figures
- pt. 3. Learning Malay
- pt. 4. Translating Emerson into Old Javanese
- pt. 5. Music and language: language and music
- pt. 6. A place for particularity
- pt. 7. Afterword
内容説明・目次
内容説明
How does Ralph Waldo Emerson sound in Kawi?
In this collection of essays A. L. Becker develops a new approach to translation he calls modern philology, an approach that insists, beyond translation, on the sorting out of ambiguities and contexts of meaning. Becker describes how texts in Burmese, Javanese, and Malay differ profoundly from English in all the ways they have meaning: in the games they play, the worlds they constitute, the memories they evoke, and the silences they maintain. In each of these dimensions there are excesses and inadequacies of meaning that make a difference across languages.
Drawn from over three decades of studying, teaching, translating and writing about Southeast Asian languages and literature's, the essays collected here for the first time are particular accounts of Becker's experiences in attempting to translate into or out of Burmese, Javanese, and Malay a variety of texts. They describe such things as the building of a Javanese shadowplay, how a Sanskrit story about the language of animals has been used in Indonesia, and some of the profound semantic silences a translator faces in taking an anecdote by Gregory Bateson from English into Malay.
In linguistics, the essays emphasise important kinds of non-universality in all aspects of language and look toward a new theory of language grounded in American pragmatism. In anthropology, the essays demonstrate that much of culture can be described in terms of text-building strategies. And for the comparativist, whether in literature, history, rhetoric, music, or psychology, the essays provide a new array of tools of comparison across distant languages and cultures.
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