Beyond the words: the power of resonance
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Abstract
The two theories of translation — the Balinese and Davidson's — advocate a procedure of going beyond words, of looking past outer trappings and semblances to that which counts more, similarities in human experience. Resonance is what fosters compassion and empathy; it enables appreciation; without resonance, ideas and understandings will not spring alive. Resonance thus seems akin to an attitude we might label sympathy, empathy or understanding. 'Resonance' and 'culture' seem to point in different directions: the one evokes sameness, the other extols the exotic and strange. As concepts they are not on a par: 'Resonance' connotes a faculty, a feeling-thinking engagement; 'culture' is an abstraction, a gloss on experience; or a model of and for life: what we see with, rather than what we see. Resonance evokes shared human experience, what people across place and time can have in common.