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Translation and Taboo
Douglas Robinson, Translation and
Taboo
A study of the survival of ancient taboos
on sacred texts in the practice and theory of translation in the West.
Special focus on Apuleius' Golden Ass and the Isiac mysteries; Herodotus,
Socrates, Plato, and the birth of reason; the Christian mysteries; Augustine
and Jerome and the rise of asceticism; R. D. Laing and the schizoid personality;
translation and empire; Tejaswini Niranjana and the "retranslation"
of a Kannada vacana; Friedrich Schleiermacher and "going doubled
like a ghost"; Walter Benjamin's "Task of the Translator."
Cloth US $35.00, paper US $18.50
ISBN 0-87580-209-5 (cloth), 0-87580-571-X (paper)
DeKalb: Northern Illinois University
Press, 1996.
