For if the sentence is the wall before the language of the original,
literalness (Wortlichkeit) is the arcade.
These were the effects of
literalness, to the detriment of the understanding the complexity of this phenomenon.
What makes "The Boy Who Wouldn't Sit Still" so charming and unusual is the innocent
literalness of his responses to others in his life.
These features--'
Literalness' and 'obscurity'--make prophecy unintelligible, Poe claims, and yet explain its enduring power (RS, 554).
At the centre of Parent's work is an apparent naivety or flaw, which lies in the
literalness with which he translates a theoretical concept into architectural form.
This intellectual revolution is the subject of Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism, written to fulfill the thesis requirement for Camus' diploma d'etudes superieures at the University of Algiers, but it is also the subject of Camus's entire career: according to the translator, "Camus never ceased to address the problem he first explored in Christian Metaphysics." Hence, this new translation--which both strives for greater
literalness and provides more references to Camus's poorly cited sources than the existing McBride translation--fills a pressing need for a critical edition of a work that holds a key to understanding Camus's later writings.
Modernity, the author realizes, has distracted the young Jewish mind from faith in Judaism and belief in the
literalness of the Bible.
Although there are passages of great beauty in her version (most notably in the letters section) the overall effect is
literalness resulting in a stilted translation rather than one that is evocative of the original's imagery and flights of fancy.
For example, essays written between 1897 and 1910 focusing on the symphonic poem reveal a typical German idealist suspicion of the "
literalness" of the "program" even as a softening of his attitudes towards the subject, also discernible over the course of those essays, reflect a growing compositional interest, in the genre.
Shocking only for its
literalness, the work, if not all warm and fuzzy, supplied interesting takes on narcissism, aging, and sexuality.