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A.V. Kopylov

Murmansk, Russia

ON THE MIMETIC ASPECTS OF TRANSLATION

The paper looks at a number of aspects of translation which can be said to represent its mimetic nature, ranging from a general motivation to translate those

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texts of the literary canon that are already available in other languages (a specific case of mimetic desire in the sense of R. Girard) to the mechanisms whereby translation produces conceptual commensurability between the languages involved in it. The author maintains that a mimetic perspective on translation can provide useful insights into the way translation functions on the psychological, social and cultural levels.

Key words: translation, mimesis, diegesis, Plato, W. Benjamin, R. Girard.

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