Babel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Babel write by R. F. Kuang. This book was released on 2022-08-23. Babel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War “Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.” -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide… Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?
Imperial Babel
Imperial Babel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imperial Babel write by Padma Rangarajan. This book was released on 2014. Imperial Babel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Translation suffers a poor reputation: traditionally dismissed as a derivative, invisible process, its recent critical emergence has led to its being cast as a central tool of colonial oppression. In Imperial Babel, Padma Rangarajan challenges both these arguments by revealing translation's complex role in shaping nineteenth-century literary and political relationships between India and Britain. Drawing from a wide range of texts ranging from eighteenth-century oriental tales to mystic poetry of the fin de siècle, Rangarajan examines literal enterprises of translation as well its ethnological, mythographic, and religious variants to show how translation in the empire steps out of the shadows and allows us to consider its diverse political and cultural consequences. Merging ongoing interests in complicating colonial epistemologies with new theoretical shifts of Translation Studies, Rangarajan argues that colonial translation was not merely a monovocal instrument of oppression, but a process that changed both colonizer and colonized, and undermined colonial hegemony as much as it abetted it. Searching for translation's trace enables both a broader, more complex understanding of the work of translation in imperial culture as well as a more nuanced understanding of the dialectical relationship between colonial policy and nineteenth-century fiction. Imperial Babel uses translation's persistent presence in colonial literature to reconsider the history of orientalism and its relationship to nineteenth-century British culture. Rangarajan argues that while bearing witness to the violence that underwrites translation in colonial spaces, we should also remain open to the irresolution of translation, its unfixed nature, and its ability to transform the colonizer as well as the colonized, the translated language and the translator's language. Imperial Babel will be of value to students and scholars of nineteenth-century British literature, South Asia, and translation.
Between Babel and Beast
Between Babel and Beast - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Babel and Beast write by Peter J. Leithart. This book was released on 2012-07-06. Between Babel and Beast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The United States is one of history's great Christian nations, but our unique history, success, and global impact have seduced us into believing we are something more--God's New Israel, the new order of the ages, the last best hope of mankind, a redeemer nation. Using the subtle categories that arise from biblical narrative, Between Babel and Beast analyzes how the heresy of Americanism inspired America's rise to hegemony while blinding American Christians to our failures and abuses of power. The book demonstrates that the church best serves the genuine good of the United States by training witnesses--martyr-citizens of God's Abrahamic empire.
Scientific Babel
Scientific Babel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scientific Babel write by Michael D. Gordin. This book was released on 2015-04-13. Scientific Babel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn’t always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over time—until the rise of English in the twentieth century. So how did we get from there to here? How did French, German, Latin, Russian, and even Esperanto give way to English? And what can we reconstruct of the experience of doing science in the polyglot past? With Scientific Babel, Michael D. Gordin resurrects that lost world, in part through an ingenious mechanism: the pages of his highly readable narrative account teem with footnotes—not offering background information, but presenting quoted material in its original language. The result is stunning: as we read about the rise and fall of languages, driven by politics, war, economics, and institutions, we actually see it happen in the ever-changing web of multilingual examples. The history of science, and of English as its dominant language, comes to life, and brings with it a new understanding not only of the frictions generated by a scientific community that spoke in many often mutually unintelligible voices, but also of the possibilities of the polyglot, and the losses that the dominance of English entails. Few historians of science write as well as Gordin, and Scientific Babel reveals his incredible command of the literature, language, and intellectual essence of science past and present. No reader who takes this linguistic journey with him will be disappointed.
Imperial Babel
Imperial Babel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imperial Babel write by Padma Rangarajan. This book was released on 2006. Imperial Babel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
