Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Repost

RT @nick_routledge: @thebafflermag Sublime, from @chebhocine on Said, echoing the trans-cultural, cross-fertilizing hermeneutics of the contemporary poet-translator, Clayton Eshleman: “the antiphonal traffic of translation, for me, opens up a greater assimilative space than monolingual reading.”

Quoted or linked post

Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 23 May 2021

@wilsonhartgrove George Steiner: “If, as blind poets can, we pass our fingers along the living edge of words – Spanish words, Russian words, Aramaic words, the syllables of a singer in Cathay – we shall feel in them the subtle beat of a great current pulsing from a common center...”

View this post’s context →

Context in the archive

Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @victoriamoul George Steiner's treatment spans several different books and registers, but his major contribution is After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation. It's not narrowly about poetry but poetic translation is treated as the limit case throughout. His polymathic verve is luminous.Quoted by@victoriamoul George Steiner's treatment spans several different books and registers, but his major contribution is After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation. It's not narrowly about poetry but poetic translation is treated as the limit case throughout. His polymathic verve is luminous.Quoted by@noonessleep George Steiner spoke of "the honest treason of the comparatist, the translator; a persistent infidelity to any one tradition, culture or community of recognition." Ultimately, the greater assimilative space of a planetary prophetology? Hillman: "Words, like angels, are powers."Quoted by@mollyfmielke Words are angels. "The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish." - Terence McKennaQuoted by@omniscommunia Word and images, here, together. Angels, opening up ‘a greater assimilative space.’Quoted by@moshik_temkin An exemplary academic, bravely pushing beyond received limits, assuming the boundary transgressions which change history. Steiner called it the honest treason of the comparatist, the translator; a persistent infidelity to any one tradition, culture or community of recognition.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @andrehenry We might also ask, here, why White marries Black? Because such hearts, together, invoke the Beauty of ‘a greater assimilative space’, arising when magnificent solitudes transgressively transcend division’s ground? The greater fullness of peacemaking made real, in a lover’s kiss?Quoted by@andrehenry We might also ask, here, why White marries Black? Because such hearts, together, invoke the Beauty of ‘a greater assimilative space’, arising when magnificent solitudes transgressively transcend division’s ground? The greater fullness of peacemaking made real, in a lover’s kiss?Quoted by@ReemK10 “Edward Said might best be understood as a translator...” @chebhosine #EdwardSaid #DOTDQuoted by@noonessleep “...a greater assimilative space”