Introduction Knowing Oneself, Untranslatably: Paradoxes of Authenticity in an Age of Globalisation

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Published: May 1, 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/syn.17280
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translatability translation language globalisation
Dionysios Kapsaskis
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Dionysios Kapsaskis

Dionysios Kapsaskis is Senior Lecturer in Translation at the University of Roehampton, where he lectures on French literature, translation theory and audiovisual translation. His recent publications include articles on translation and globalisation, and on the aesthetic and political aspects of film subtitling. In his current research, he examines the work of the French author Marguerite Yourcenar from the double vantage point of poststructural literary criticism and twentieth-century existentialism.

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