caa a22 4500 60617253X CHVBK 20210128100729.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11059-015-0310-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11059-015-0310-0 Jiang Zhuyu Faculty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China aut Footnotes: Why and how they become essential to world literature? [Elektronische Daten] [Zhuyu Jiang] Footnotes that include supplementary and cultural messages are necessary for world literature studies. In world literature studies, we always expect perspectives that are macro, summarizing and concise. Yet given the countless literary works worldwide and the mortality of human beings, to give a close reading of all literary works seems to be the least probable method even for the most talented scholar. With the help of those footnotes however, "distant” readings with a comprehensive and comparative perspective can also produce solid argument. For translations, footnotes expand the working domain of translators where they can put cultural and contextual information that is necessary for readers. They enable translators to preserve the "whole” original work without sacrificing the meaning, form or taste of it. The claim of "untranslatability” is thus invalidated. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2015 Footnotes nationallicence World literature nationallicence Translation nationallicence Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/2(2015-12-01), 687-694 0324-4652 42:2<687 2015 42 11059 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-015-0310-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-015-0310-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Jiang Zhuyu Faculty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/2(2015-12-01), 687-694 0324-4652 42:2<687 2015 42 11059