Comparative Criticism beyond Eurocentrism: In Search of the Untranslatables of Literary Theory

T. Beebee
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While the study of world literature is often seen as escaping the boundaries of eurocentrism—albeit with the need for constant revision and self-critique—a truer overcoming would involve another sort of anthologization, namely, of world theory and criticism. World literature should go beyond being a reified collection of translated texts, to become an exploration and comparison of the different ways of thinking about literature and aesthetics in different parts of the world. Barbara Cassin’s Vocabulaire Européen des philosophies: Dictionnaire des intraduisibles provides a possible model in this regard. The untranslatability of critical terms from different traditions is generative of new meanings due to the repeated efforts to translate and to compare non-synonymous terms with each other. This essay examines the untranslatability and comparability of several different terms from Asian aesthetic traditions.
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超越欧洲中心主义的比较批评:寻找文学理论的不可译性
虽然世界文学的研究经常被视为逃避欧洲中心主义的边界——尽管需要不断的修正和自我批评——但更真实的克服将涉及另一种类型的选集,即世界理论和批评。世界文学不应仅仅是翻译文本的具象化集合体,而应成为世界不同地区对文学和美学的不同思维方式的探索和比较。芭芭拉·卡辛的《欧洲哲学词汇表:不可用词典》在这方面提供了一个可能的模式。来自不同传统的关键术语的不可译性是由于反复翻译和相互比较非同义术语而产生的新含义。本文探讨了亚洲美学传统中几个不同术语的不可译性和可比性。
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