Hubscher-Davidson, Severine
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14781700.2019.1633393 |
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Abstract
Imaginative resistance is a reluctance to buy into morally deviant fictional worlds. While most people have little trouble imagining acts of violence happening in fiction, they will struggle to entertain the idea that such acts could be the moral thing to do, even within a fictional universe. Although this phenomenon has received a lot of attention from philosophers, it is absent from the Translation Studies literature despite its relevance. In this paper, the significance of imaginative resistance for the literary translation process will be explored. A number of areas will be identified where translation research can make an important contribution to philosophical debates on this issue. In particular, imaginative resistance will be theorized as a new translation double bind. By bringing together research from two disciplines, this paper aims to encourage novel ways of thinking about both the translation process and the puzzle of imaginative resistance.
| Item Type: | Journal Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group |
| Keywords: | imaginative resistance; double bind; literary translation; fiction; morality |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics > Languages Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) |
| Research Group: | Language & Literacies |
| Item ID: | 58973 |
| Depositing User: | Severine Hubscher-Davidson |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2019 09:15 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jul 2019 07:53 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/58973 |
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