Ruth Alison Clemens
Biographic Data
| ID | 6805328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Alison Clemens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Clemens |
| SIGNATURE | CLEMENS R A |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3937-4627 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Bombast and Sesquipedalian Words
The epigraph to T. S. Eliot's long poem The Waste Land (1922) is one of the most well-known paratexts of twentieth-century literature. However, as previous scholars have noted, the popularized English translation from the Ancient Greek of Petronius’ Satyricon contains a small but significant mistranslation: the Cumaean Sibyl is not actually hanging in a cage. This essay unearths another meaning in Ancient Greek of the ampulla in which the poet or…
Languages are so like their boots’
Reading the 1933 biography Flush alongside Woolf’s translation theory and Braidotti’s nomadic ‘multilinguism’, this paper argues that Woolf’s modernist dislocation of English both informs and is informed by her relationship with non-English languages. Using the Deleuzean idea of the ‘incompossible’ as a way of considering a world made up of multiple co-existing yet contradictory relations, I trace the presence of a ‘linguistic incompossibility’ t…
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Bombast and Sesquipedalian Words
The epigraph to T. S. Eliot's long poem The Waste Land (1922) is one of the most well-known paratexts of twentieth-century literature. However, as previous scholars have noted, the popularized English translation from the Ancient Greek of Petronius’ Satyricon contains a small but significant mistranslation: the Cumaean Sibyl is not actually hanging in a cage. This essay unearths another meaning in Ancient Greek of the ampulla in which the poet or…
Languages are so like their boots’
Reading the 1933 biography Flush alongside Woolf’s translation theory and Braidotti’s nomadic ‘multilinguism’, this paper argues that Woolf’s modernist dislocation of English both informs and is informed by her relationship with non-English languages. Using the Deleuzean idea of the ‘incompossible’ as a way of considering a world made up of multiple co-existing yet contradictory relations, I trace the presence of a ‘linguistic incompossibility’ t…
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