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1 online resource (xxix, 261 pages) : illustrations |
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The Colombian lettered city: philology, ideology, translation -- The regime of translation in Caro's Colombia -- Hugo, Bello, Caro -- Regeneration without revolution: Caro contra Bolivar -- Conclusion: on lettered cities and the writing of lyric |
| Summary |
The two principal questions that The City of Translation sets out to answer are: how did poetry, philology, catechesis, and literary translation legitimate a coterie of right-wing literati's rise to power in Colombia? And how did these men proceed to dismantle a long-standing liberal-democratic state without derogating basic constitutional freedoms? To answer those questions, Jose Maria Rodriguez Garcia investigates the emergence, development, and decline of what he calls "the reactionary city of translation"--A variation on, and a correction to Angel Rama's understanding of the nineteenth-century "lettered city" as a primarily liberal and modernizing project. The City of Translation makes the tropes of "translatio" the conceptual nucleus of a comprehensive analysis that cuts across academic disciplines, ranging from political philosophy and the history of concepts to the relationship of literature to religious doctrine and the law |
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A study of the relationship between literary translation, authoritarian politics, linguistic ideologies, juristic philology, religion, and poetry in late nineteenth-century Colombia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Caro, Miguel Antonio, 1843-1909 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Caro, Miguel Antonio, 1843-1909 |
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Translating and interpreting -- Colombia -- History -- 19th century
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Politics and literature -- Colombia
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
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Literature.
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Politics and government
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Politics and literature
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Translating and interpreting
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Colombia -- Politics and government -- 1810-
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Colombia
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230111783 |
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0230111785 |
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9780230615335 |
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0230615333 |
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