Strange Relations. Cultural Translation of Noh Theatre in Ezra Pound’s Dance Poems and W. B. Yeats’s At the Hawk’s Well

Drawing on the reception of Noh drama by Ezra Pound and William Butler Yeats, the article analyses both the literary and cultural ‘translations’ of this form of Japanese theatre in their works, focusing on Yeats’s play At the Hawk’s Well (1917). I conceptualize ‘cultural translation’ as the staging of relations that mark a residual cultural difference. Referred to as ‘foreignizing’ in translation theory, this method enables what Erika Fischer-Lichte has termed a ‘liminal experience’ for the audience –– an effect Yeats intended for the performance of his play. It evokes situations in which opposites collapse and new ways of acting or new combinations of symbols can be tried out. Yeats’s play will be used to sketch how an analysis of relations could serve as a general model for the study of cultural transfer as cultural translation in general. Keywords: cultural translation, translation theory, performance, William Butler Yeats, Itō Michio, Ezra Pound, At the Hawk’s Well

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Knowledge Creation as a Square Dance on the Hilbert Cube

This paper presents a micro-model of knowledge creation and transfer in a small group of people. Our model incorporates two key aspects of the cooperative process of knowledge creation: (i) heterogeneity of people in their state of knowledge is essential for successful cooperation in the joint creation of new ideas, while (ii) the very process of cooperative knowledge creation a¤ects the heterogeneity of people through the accumulation of knowledge in common. The model features myopic agents in a pure externality model of interaction. In the two person case, we show that the equilibrium process tends to result in the accumulation of too much knowledge in common compared to the most productive state. Unlike the two-person case, in the four person case we show that the equilibrium process of knowledge creation may converge to the most productive state. Equilibrium paths are found analytically, and they are a discontinuous function of initial heterogeneity.

A CAPOEIRA DE BRAÇOS PARA O AR Um Estudo da Capoeira Gospel no ABC Paulista

Esta pesquisa estuda o processo de mudança corrente na capoeira gerada pela capoeira gospel no ABC paulista e suas regiões periféricas. Discute o viés pelo qual os evangélicos a utilizam como ferramenta de evangelização e como assimilam as suas técnicas corporais, enquanto ramificação da cultura afro-brasileira. A pesquisa de campo foi realizada por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com pastores evangélicos, mestres de capoeira pastores e adeptos da capoeira em igrejas pentecostais, neopentecostais e em academias seculares da região. O movimento da capoeira gospel é um fenômeno recente e em crescimento. Com princípios baseados na Bíblia, desestruturam os alicerces da capoeira secular que tem sua base nas tradições culturais de origem africana, que funde mitos, ritos e esporte.(AU)