A Challenging Game of Books and the Free Interplay of Cultural Transfer
Keywords:
book history, the culture of writing, literature, textual indeterminacy, fluidity, semiosphere, reading, semiotic translation, cultural transfer, the world literary systemAbstract
Discussing the book and its cultural economy, this paper opens up key issues of the culture of writing and of textual transactions. Literature as written words is “orphaned language” (Caruth) that results in the fact that readings keep the first-person consciousness alert and involve the realm of the semiosphere, and thus interpolate a subjective dimension into texts, leaving inevitable consequences for cultural transfer as well.References
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