A sweeping intellectual history of the relationship between literary translation, authoritarian politics, linguistic ideologies, juristic philology, religion, and poetry in late nineteenth-century Colombia.

Autorentext
JOSE MARIA RODRIGUEZ-GARCIA, Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University, USA.

Inhalt
The Colombian Lettered City: Philology, Ideology, Translation The Regime of Translation in Caro's Colombia Hugo, Bello, Caro Regeneration without Revolution: Caro contra Bolívar Conclusion: On Lettered Cities, Political Theologies, and the Writing of Lyric