Book contents
- The Philosophy of Literary Translation
- The Philosophy of Literary Translation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I Positions and Propositions
- Part II Dialogue, Movement, Ecology
- Chapter 5 Dialogue and Dialectic in the Translational Act
- Chapter 6 Movement, Duration, Rhythm
- Chapter 7 The Ecological Reach and Promise of Literary Translation
- Coda
- Appendix Merleau-Ponty and Invisibility
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 5 - Dialogue and Dialectic in the Translational Act
from Part II - Dialogue, Movement, Ecology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 July 2023
- The Philosophy of Literary Translation
- The Philosophy of Literary Translation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I Positions and Propositions
- Part II Dialogue, Movement, Ecology
- Chapter 5 Dialogue and Dialectic in the Translational Act
- Chapter 6 Movement, Duration, Rhythm
- Chapter 7 The Ecological Reach and Promise of Literary Translation
- Coda
- Appendix Merleau-Ponty and Invisibility
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines the operation of dialogue and reciprocal exchange between the ST and the translator. Dialogue ensures that this relationship will always be incomplete, unfinished. By translational dialogue, one art extends the expressive capacities of another. The motor of dialogue is dialectics, and the chapter goes on to evaluate different versions of dialectical progression, while itself opting for a dialectic which releases a semanticity, as opposed to a semiology, a dialectic of participatory subjecthood. The chapter closes with an assessment of David Bohm’s vision of dialogue, since its concern with implicate and explicate orders lead into the chapter following. The chapter also contains indicative translations of Lamartine and Hugo.
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- The Philosophy of Literary TranslationDialogue, Movement, Ecology, pp. 85 - 130Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023