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by Sanford Budick (Editor), Wolfgang Iser (Editor)
These essays-which consider a wide variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to contemporary Japan- describe the conditions under which cultures that do not dominate each other may yet achieve a limited translatability of cultures.
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The fourteen essays in this volume--which consider a wide variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to contemporary Japan--address both sorts of discourse and elucidate the two-way or mutual conditioning of cultural positions as well as the illusions and exclusions created by mutuality.