The “Matrix of Culture”––George Steiner’s After Babel and the Outlines of a Semiotics of Translation and Adaptation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22260628 |
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| Authors | Marco Agnetta (0009-0005-9520-3082, Universität Innsbruck, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Yearbook of Translational Hermeneutics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2748-8160 • E-ISSN: 2748-8160 |
| Publisher | Leipzig University Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.52116/yth.vi1.25 |
| OpenAlex | W3210193997 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
The present article aims to draw attention to the fact that George Steiner, in After Babel, a book now more than forty-five years old, makes statements that are still valid today not only with regard to translation in the narrow sense (translation proper), but also concerning the genesis and intercultural transfer of non-verbal or polysemiotic artifacts. In contrast to what has been done so far, Steiner can be considered a pioneer of a comprehensive semiotics of translation, along with Roman Jakobson and others. The following remarks pursue this idea primarily on the basis of Steiner’s sixth chapter, entitled “Topologies of Culture”, and show that there are still points there that can be taken up today and in the future
Art · Art history · Linguistics · Literature · Semiotics · Sociology · Italian Literature and Culture · Linguistic Education and Pedagogy · Linguistic research and analysis · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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