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Author Rodríguez-García, José María, author.

Title The city of translation : poetry and ideology in nineteenth-century Colombia / José María Rodríguez García
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 261 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
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
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Subject Caro, Miguel Antonio, 1843-1909 -- Criticism and interpretation
Caro, Miguel Antonio, 1843-1909
Translating and interpreting -- Colombia -- History -- 19th century
Politics and literature -- Colombia
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
Literature.
Politics and government
Politics and literature
Translating and interpreting
Colombia -- Politics and government -- 1810-
Colombia
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230111783
0230111785
9780230615335
0230615333