...Benjamin wrote: "The language of a translation can — in fact must — let itself go, so that it gives voice to the intentio of the original not as reproduction...language in which it expresses itself, as its own kind of intentio" (1969:79). It is, incidentally, for the reader to evaluate that intentio, not for the translator...

...the meaning, the language of a translation can — in fact, must — let itself go, so that it gives voice to the intentio of the original not as reproduction...language in which it expresses itself, as its own kind of intentio. Therefore it is not the highest praise of a translation, particularly in the age of its origin,...

...a desire to retain the meaning. On the contrary, what the language of translation has to do is "to give voice to the intentio of the original, not as...language in which it expresses itself, as its own kind of intentio." Here again, as with the notion of creation, Benjamin takes for granted the notion of "original."...

...non-linguistic; and the sign-external domain of meaning is untouched by Benjamin's translator, who "gives voice to the intentio of the original not as reproduction...supplement to the language in which it expresses itself (Benjamin 1968:79). This translator produces a transliteration of the original, a translation which,...

...language of a translation can— in fact, must — let itself go, so that it gives voice to the intention of the original not as reproduction but as harmony,...language in which it expresses itself, as its own kind ofinttntio" (1969, 78-79). Hence literalness or faithfulness to the materiality of the signifiers betokens...

...drawn forth in what he calls the intentio of a linguistic work ("the language of a translation gives voice to the intentio of the original not as reproduction but as harmony ... as its own kind of intentio" [GS 4.1 1 8/1 79]). A work of high quality is eminently translatable in that...

...another because the language of a translation can - in fact, must - let itself go, so that it gives voice to the intentio of the original not as reproduction...language in which it expresses itself, as its own kind of intentio. (Benjamin 1969:79) For Benjamin this freedom also higblights what is wrong with traditional...

...formulates it, "the language of a translation can — in fact, must — let itself go, so that it gives voice to the intentio of the original, not as reproduction...language in which it expresses itself, as its own kind of intentio^ Pound himself said as much when commenting on his own versions of Cavalcanti: "I have in...

...the meaning, the language of a translation can — in fact, must — let itself go, so that it gives voice to the intentio of the original not as reproduction...language in which it expresses itself, as its own kind of intentio. Therefore it is not the highest praise of a translation, particularly in the age of its origin,...

..."The language of translation," writes Benjamin, "can—in fact, must—let itself go, so that it gives voice to the intentio of the original, not as reproduction, but as harmony, as a supplement." 4 Genuine translation operates Eke authentic improvisation in jazz, remaking and reconstructing earlier...