Marcy E Schwartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5520491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcy E Schwartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcy E |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZ M E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Borges and Translation
Reviewed by: Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery Marcy E. Schwartz Sergio Waisman. Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2005. 267 pp. Sergio Waisman offers both detailed textual analysis and theoretical elaboration in his comprehensive study of Jorge Luis Borges's relationship with translation. According to Waisman, it is through translation that readers may understand Borges's…
Killer Books
Aníbal González's Killer Books is an intriguing and often gripping study. A translation into English of his Abusos y admoniciones: ética y escritura en la narrativa hispanoamericana moderna (Siglo XXI, 2001), Killer Books offers an intellectual and philosophical history of writing and violence in Spanish America. He traces from classical and Biblical examples through the history of Hispanic letters what he calls "graphophobia," a condition that g…
Voice-Overs
Voice-Overs: and Latin American Literature. Ed. Daniel Balderston and Marcy E. Schwartz. Albany: SUNY P, 2002. 266 pages.Despite the increase in critical writings on translation in the last twenty-some years, there is still much uncertainty in the profession over what, exactly, translation studies can encompass. Voice-Overs, edited by Daniel Balderston and Marcy Schwartz, goes a long way towards illustrating the potential of studying translation,…
Writing Paris
Writing Paris
Writing Paris: Urban Topographies of Desire in Contemporary Latin American Fiction. By Marcy E. Schwartz. Albany: State U of New York P, 1999. xiii + 182 pp. While this first book by Rutgers University professor Marcy Schwartz has much to recommend it, it is also an object lesson in the pitfalls of academic publishing. Schwartz's topic is a rich one with a substantial presence in Latin American letters: Paris as a bohemian Mecca, yearned-for dest…
Jorge Luis Borges
MLN - Volume 110, Number 2, March 1995 (Hispanic Issue)
Voice-Overs
Voice-Overs: and Latin American Literature. Ed. Daniel Balderston and Marcy E. Schwartz. Albany: SUNY P, 2002. 266 pages.Despite the increase in critical writings on translation in the last twenty-some years, there is still much uncertainty in the profession over what, exactly, translation studies can encompass. Voice-Overs, edited by Daniel Balderston and Marcy Schwartz, goes a long way towards illustrating the potential of studying translation,…
Writing Paris
Writing Paris: Urban Topographies of Desire in Contemporary Latin American Fiction. By Marcy E. Schwartz. Albany: State U of New York P, 1999. xiii + 182 pp. While this first book by Rutgers University professor Marcy Schwartz has much to recommend it, it is also an object lesson in the pitfalls of academic publishing. Schwartz's topic is a rich one with a substantial presence in Latin American letters: Paris as a bohemian Mecca, yearned-for dest…
Jorge Luis Borges
MLN - Volume 110, Number 2, March 1995 (Hispanic Issue)
Writing Paris
Writing Paris
Writing Paris: Urban Topographies of Desire in Contemporary Latin American Fiction. By Marcy E. Schwartz. Albany: State U of New York P, 1999. xiii + 182 pp. While this first book by Rutgers University professor Marcy Schwartz has much to recommend it, it is also an object lesson in the pitfalls of academic publishing. Schwartz's topic is a rich one with a substantial presence in Latin American letters: Paris as a bohemian Mecca, yearned-for dest…
Killer Books
Aníbal González's Killer Books is an intriguing and often gripping study. A translation into English of his Abusos y admoniciones: ética y escritura en la narrativa hispanoamericana moderna (Siglo XXI, 2001), Killer Books offers an intellectual and philosophical history of writing and violence in Spanish America. He traces from classical and Biblical examples through the history of Hispanic letters what he calls "graphophobia," a condition that g…
Voice-Overs
Voice-Overs: and Latin American Literature. Ed. Daniel Balderston and Marcy E. Schwartz. Albany: SUNY P, 2002. 266 pages.Despite the increase in critical writings on translation in the last twenty-some years, there is still much uncertainty in the profession over what, exactly, translation studies can encompass. Voice-Overs, edited by Daniel Balderston and Marcy Schwartz, goes a long way towards illustrating the potential of studying translation,…
Borges and Translation
Reviewed by: Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery Marcy E. Schwartz Sergio Waisman. Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2005. 267 pp. Sergio Waisman offers both detailed textual analysis and theoretical elaboration in his comprehensive study of Jorge Luis Borges's relationship with translation. According to Waisman, it is through translation that readers may understand Borges's…
History (6 works) · Latin American Literature Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Latin Americans (3 works) · Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity (2 works)