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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 76
T2  - Shakespeare Survey
SP  - 112-27
ID  - bbbp72
T1  - "Hamlet, Translation and the Linguistic Conditions of Thought"
AU  - Chiba, Jessica
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2026
KW  - philosophy of language
KW  - philosophy
KW  - epistemology
LA  - English
AB  - Describes untranslatability of "To be, or not to be" into Japanese, a language that has no "to be" verb. Considers meaningfulness of Hamlet's soliloquy and its possible "unthinkable" nature in Japan, interrogating the "deep-seated Western assumptions about what counts as as a questioning of the world, and thus what makes a literary work intellectually significant."
ER  -