Global<i>Translatio:</i>The “Invention” of Comparative Literature, Istanbul, 1933

Apter, Emily

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“…Indeed, the very In brief, the advent of Comparative Interpreting Studies would push Interpreting Studies beyond the accretion of independent case studies, however detailed, into the realm of metaanalysis and the systematization of interpreting research. It also promises to enable the contextualization of interpreting itself within the wider social, economic and political structures in which it exists, in a similar fashion to the ways in which Comparative Literature has opened the way to understand how these variables affect the production and consumption of literary and academic texts (e.g., Apter 2003). Such a meta-analytical and systematic project would create new horizons for research and provide useful theoretical and practical insights.…”

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Interpreting is interpreting

Downie

2020

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Abstract This article argues that the use of interpreting settings as theoretical categories is no longer empirically sound. Instead, research should focus on the commonalities of all interpreting practice. This move is viewed as an enabling shift for the creation of Comparative Interpreting Studies, a strand dedicated to considering interpreting as a global practice. After discussing the rationale for the current use of interpreting settings as analytical categories, evidence from a variety of existing settings is used to illustrate the commonalities between all instances of interpreting and the fuzziness of the boundaries between these settings. It is argued that using interpreting settings leads to silo thinking, where researchers focus on research in the setting in which they are working, even when findings from other settings can be applied. The article ends with a discussion of the theoretical and practical potential of this move including the power of a comparative approach.

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Section: Toward Comparative Interpreting Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interpreting is interpreting

Downie

2020

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“…The enthusiastic, albeit outlandish, claims made by the Turkish academic establishment of the period sought to undermine and, in fact, reverse Orientalist assumptions embedded in western social science. Another humanist scholar at the University of Istanbul, Leo Spitzer, showed signs of a paradigm of global cultural exchange in his embrace of Turkish as a subject of philological research, together with Romanic languages (Apter, 2003). The Turkish elite's aversion toward imitation, the rejection of Ottoman modernity, and the insistence on autonomy could be seen as steps toward HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES 22 (1) 122 manufacturing an alternative modernity.…”

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“…The establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923 as one of the successor states to the defunct Ottoman Empire does not only represent a political transformation. Although nuanced work exists (Apter, 2003;Konuk, 2007;Öncü, 1993), the majority of scholarly and popular accounts of the period present a glorifying picture, according to which Turkey extends its helping hand to a persecuted minority for humanitarian reasons, usually based on grateful accounts in émigré memoirs translated into Turkish (Hirsch, 1997;Neumark, 1982;Schwartz, 2003). Turkish modernization and nation-building relied on the 'West' not only as HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES 22(1) an abstract and distant model, but also in the form of close encounters and interactions.…”

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Cultural encounters in the social sciences and humanities: western émigré scholars in Turkey

Ergin

2009

History of the Human Sciences

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Turkish modernization relied on the western social sciences and humanities not only as an abstract and distant model, but also in the form of close encounters and interactions with western refugee scholars. This article examines the activities of western intellectuals and experts who visited Turkey in the early republican era (1923-50), especially focusing on a group of èmigrè scholars who were employed in Turkey after the university reform of 1933. While European and North American social scientists were drawn to meticulous comparisons of "east" and "west" in this period, elites in the former component of this comparative dichotomy were seeking creative ways to turn this taxonomy to their advantage. In the Turkish case, the project of adopting modernity contained universalistic aspects intended to function for particular local needs. A body of racial, historical and linguistic theories attempted to create and sustain a nationally homogeneous society while, at the same time, emphasizing the contributions of Turkishness to western and modern history. Republican scholars tried to establish the Turkish origins of western civilization with the help of western social sciences in general and of western èmigrè scholars in particular. In the process of facilitating the local efforts to import western modernity into the specificity of Turkishness, refugee scholars encountered contradictory demands and employed different strategies to respond to these demands.

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“…7 Several scholars in the USA and in Europe have gone so far as to reject the very notion of comparison. Susan Bassnett declared fifteen years ago: 'Today, comparative literature in one sense is dead.'…”

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How Field Theory Can Contribute to Knowledge of World Literary Space

Boschetti¹

2012

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Anglophone scholars with a postcolonial perspective have forcefully challenged eurocentric definitions of comparative literature and the limits of national frameworks. But this debate 'offers few methodological solutions to the pragmatic issue of how to make credible comparisons among radically different languages and literatures' (Emily Apter). Moreover, some have even rejected the very notion of comparison, impugning its association with nationalistic and imperialistic perspectives or its unsuitability for the study of historical, dynamic and multidimensional processes. This article offers a synthetic overview of the tools field theory provides for literature studies in a global perspective without sacrificing methodological rigour and empirical validation. It discusses the epistemological principles set out in The Craft of Sociology to address problems of comparison; the possibility of rational dialogue between different theoretical frameworks; the properties which make Bourdieu's model more complete than other approaches to literary phenomena; and finally, developments of field theory and issues raised by globalization.

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GlobalTranslatio:The “Invention” of Comparative Literature, Istanbul, 1933

Cited by 108 publications

References 3 publications

Interpreting is interpreting

Interpreting is interpreting

Cultural encounters in the social sciences and humanities: western émigré scholars in Turkey

How Field Theory Can Contribute to Knowledge of World Literary Space

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