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_cMdBmJHUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aPN241.5.I53
_bR36 2014
082 0 0 _a418/.020954
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100 1 _aRangarajan, Padma.
245 1 0 _aImperial Babel
_h[electronic resource] :
_btranslation, exoticism, and the long nineteenth century /
_cPadma Rangarajan.
260 _aNew York :
_bFordham University Press,
_c2014.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter One Translation and the "Formidable Art" -- Radical Difference -- Translation and the Postcolonial Predicament -- Translation's Slant -- Chapter Two Pseudotranslations: Exoticism and the Oriental Tale -- The Heterotopic Space of Translation -- Rethinking Exoticism -- Vathek's Pleasures -- Southey's Translative Failure -- Translation's Fragments -- Chapter Three Romantic Metanoia: Conversion and Cultural Translation in India -- The Oriental Novel -- Translating Evangelicalism -- Linguistic Intermarriage -- Spiritual Flirtation -- Translative Impasse -- Memorials -- Chapter Four "Paths too long obscure": the Translations of Jones and Müller -- Segmentary Lineage -- Sir William Jones and the Hindoo Hymns -- Max Müller and the Task of the Translator -- Cultural Re-Gifting and Translative Heresy -- Chapter Five Translation's Bastards: Mimicry and Linguistic Hybridity -- Mistranslation and Pollution -- Showing the Lions -- Jumble in the Jungle -- Baboo "Funkiness" -- Epilogue: Slant Speech -- Conclusion -- Works Cited.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 7 _aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
_2bisacsh
650 0 _aIntertextuality.
650 0 _aSemiotics and literature.
650 0 _aImperialism in literature.
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_xHistory and criticism
_xTheory, etc.
650 0 _aIndic literature
_xHistory and criticism
_xTheory, etc.
650 0 _aTranslating and interpreting
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory.
650 0 _aTranslating and interpreting
_zIndia
_xHistory.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780823263646/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c30790
_d30790