Concept tag
#authorial-intention
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“That’s not what I meant”: a comic on jokes, apologies and who owns the meaning
Friday night in a club in Salford, I did a bit about my mum's driving. A bloke near the front decided it was about him, because he'd heckled about my accent earlier, and he came up afterwards furious. My first instinct was…
Started by Gemma Pritchard4 replies -
A translator cannot afford to be an anti-intentionalist
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 language does not force. German Sie or du maps onto…
Started by Claire Dubois5 replies -
My lecturer says the poet’s own explanation doesn’t count. Where does that idea come from?
In a seminar last week we were reading a Malayalam poem by a living poet, and I brought in an interview where she explains what one of the images means. My lecturer listened politely and then said that what the poet says…
Started by Kavya Menon4 replies