{"product_id":"the-afterlife-of-texts-in-edmund-chapman-9783030324513","title":"The Afterlife of Texts in Translation: Understanding the Messianic in Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Afterlife of Texts in Translation: Understanding the Messianic in Literature\u003c\/i\u003e reads Walter Benjamin's and Jacques Derrida's writings on translation as suggesting that texts exist within a process of continual translation. Understanding Benjamin's and Derrida's concept of 'afterlife' as 'overliving', this book proposes that reading Benjamin's and Derrida's writings on translation in terms of their wider thought on language and history suggests that textuality itself possesses a 'messianic' quality. Developing this idea in relation to the many rewritings and translations of \u003ci\u003eDon Quijote\u003c\/i\u003e, particularly the multiple rewritings by Jorge Luis Borges, Edmund Chapman asserts that texts consist of a structure of potential for endless translation that continually promises the overcoming of language, history and textuality itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edmund Chapman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030324516\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030324513\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave Pivot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.38d","brand":"Edmund Chapman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44126208229631,"sku":"9783030324513","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_552e506a-bfae-4395-b8a2-524bae87429a.jpg?v=1687446870","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-afterlife-of-texts-in-edmund-chapman-9783030324513","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}