Showing posts with label Literary capital French German World Republic of Letters. Fredric Jameson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literary capital French German World Republic of Letters. Fredric Jameson. Show all posts

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Pascale Casanova: Translation as a weapon: language, value and literary capital

This was my first attempt at using CoveritLive. This talk was so much fun to live-blog and link, not just because it was very smart and strangely engaging, but also because Fred Jameson translated quite a bit of the Q&A. The very point of the talk played itself out in practice. Except, oddly, enough the linguistic capital derived from a US context.