Beyond Words: A Global Program in Literature
"Beyond Words" surveys essential texts and ideas of literature, philosophy and cultures through a critical lens and aims to make academic education in the humanities accessible to the world. Beyond Words is previously known as The Global Novel Podcast.
Beyond Words: A Global Program in Literature
Apter's Politics of Untranslatability
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Emily Apter’s Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability is a pivotal monograph in the study of comparative literature, published in 2014, ushering a significant turn in theorizing what is world literature and what it should be as a discipline in the US academia. Emily Apter is the major contributor to the recent debate about world literature theory. She is a Harvard graduate and her areas of expertise range from philosophizing in Languages, Political Theory, Translation theory, to continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, French and German literature. She is currently Professor of Comparative Literature and French at New York University.
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Emily Apter, Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (2014)
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