tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post3322530770440606001..comments2023-06-08T07:32:39.725-05:00Comments on Aristotle's Feminist Subject: On DifficultyJ. K. Gaylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-15823899421424160752008-12-31T12:06:00.000-06:002008-12-31T12:06:00.000-06:00modal (which Steiner attributes to the great C. S....<I>modal (which Steiner attributes to the great C. S. Lewis, and I just had to throw that in)</I><BR/><BR/>I just reread this note I made so long ago, and I want to expand on it. <BR/><BR/>Steiner says that Lewis has or works through modal difficulties. What Steiner doesn't get to is Lewis's great little essay, "Transposition." There Lewis is giving away his understanding of "translation" as "transposing." Something always gets lost in the process. It's like reducing the Beatle's song Hey Jude to musak played in the elevator (or, for you Brits, in the lift). I, not Lewis, makes the transposition example with the Beatles. The point is their is the trade of the higher form for the lower form, a more robust mode for a reduced mode, a band singing lyrics with harmony for just a melodized mode.<BR/><BR/>That's not all translation must be, but it seems to be how Lewis thought of it. I think translation that changes the "being" of the original author, the readers and the audiences, and even the translator is ontological translating. The most difficult but the most rewarding!J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-33485348231897050302007-11-14T15:54:00.000-06:002007-11-14T15:54:00.000-06:00Glad that makes it easier. Nothing like difficult...Glad that makes it easier. Nothing like difficulties being difficult. (Just read what you'd posted on Derrida. Steiner helps Derrida help me--difficult no less.)J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-58284484779200361722007-10-22T04:05:00.000-05:002007-10-22T04:05:00.000-05:00That was helpful, thanks! It's nice having solutio...That was helpful, thanks! It's nice having solutions to difficulties clearly laid out before you.Phil Sumpterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16491514886782881340noreply@blogger.com