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The Other Book: Bewilderments of Fiction
Jordan Stump
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Description for The Other Book: Bewilderments of Fiction
Hardback. An examination of the relationship between a text, its "other" forms and what can be gleaned from this textual interplay. Series: Stages. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 484.
Jordan Stump had often contemplated the relationship between a translation and “the book itself,” ruminating on the intriguing inherent sameness and difference between the two. In The Other Book, Stump examines the “other” forms of a book and the ways in which they both mirror and depart from the original. Grounding his witty and original study in an exploration of four forms of Raymond Queneau’s Le chiendent—a copy, the manuscript, a translation, and a critical edition—Stump poses questions designed to help readers reconsider the nature of fiction and reading.
Each form of Le chiendent both is and is not ... Read more
Jordan Stump had often contemplated the relationship between a translation and “the book itself,” ruminating on the intriguing inherent sameness and difference between the two. In The Other Book, Stump examines the “other” forms of a book and the ways in which they both mirror and depart from the original. Grounding his witty and original study in an exploration of four forms of Raymond Queneau’s Le chiendent—a copy, the manuscript, a translation, and a critical edition—Stump poses questions designed to help readers reconsider the nature of fiction and reading.
Each form of Le chiendent both is and is not ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Stages
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803234307
SKU
V9780803234307
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Jordan Stump
Jordan Stump is a professor of French at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of Naming and Unnaming: On Raymond Queneau (Nebraska 1998) and has translated numerous texts. His translation of Claude Simon’s The Jardin des Plantes was awarded the French-American Foundation’s translation prize; in the fall of 2006, he was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et ... Read more
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