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A translator cannot afford to be an anti-intentionalist
I translate novels from German and English into French, and I want to defend a thesis that my academic friends find naive: translation makes anti-intentionalism impossible in practice, whatever its merits in theory. Here is why. Every page forces choices the source…
Started by Claire Dubois5 replies181 views -
Novels give us moral knowledge that no argument can deliver
I teach eleventh-grade English, and every year I watch the same thing happen. Students who have heard every argument about slavery, its cruelty, its injustice, its economics, read Toni Morrison's Beloved and come out changed in a way the arguments never managed.…
Started by Keisha Monroe5 replies225 views