Babel and Babble in Benjamin and Burke
Drawing on the works of Walter Benjamin and Kenneth Burke, this essay argues that the philosophical conditions and conclusions of rhetoric and translation are the same: both trace their origins to the primal fall of language, whether after the Fall from Eden or the curse of Babel, and both find thei...
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ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst
2021
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| Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/3ed1bed826b141a4ba6c2dc378418616 |
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