Rethinking Medieval Translation :Ethics, Politics, Theory

Rethinking Medieval Translation

Rethinking Medieval Translation :Ethics, Politics, Theory

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Essays examining both the theory and practice of medieval translation. Engaging and informative to read, challenging in its assertions, and provocative in the best way, inviting the reader to sift, correlate and reflect on the broader applicability of points made in reference to a specific text orexchange. Professor Carolyne P. Collette, Mount Holyoke College. Medieval notions of translatio raise issues that have since been debated in contemporary translation studies concerning the translator's role asinterpreter or author; the ability of translation to reinforce or unsettle linguistic or political dominance; and translation's capacity for establishing cultural contact, or participating in cultural appropriation or effacement.This collection puts these ethical and political issues centre stage, asking whether questions currently being posed by theorists of translation need rethinking or revising when brought into dialogue with medieval examples. Contributors explore translation - as a practice, a necessity, an impossibility and a multi-media form - through multiple perspectives on language, theory, dissemination and cultural transmission. Exploring texts, authors, languages and genres not often brought together in a single volume, individual essays focus on topics such as the politics of multilingualism, the role of translation in conflict situations, the translator's invisibility, hospitality, untranslatability and the limits of translation as a category. EMMA CAMPBELL is Associate Professor in French at the University of Warwick; ROBERT MILLS is Lecturer in History of Art at University College London. Contributors: William Burgwinkle, Ardis Butterfield, Emma Campbell, Marilynn Desmond, Simon Gaunt, Jane Gilbert, Miranda Griffin, Noah D. Guynn, Catherine Léglu, Robert Mills, Zrinka Stahuljak, Luke Sunderland
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781843843290
ISBN10 1843843293
Number Of Pages 304
Item Weight 534 g
Publisher / Reseller Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format hardback
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This wide-ranging and stimulating collection.is thoroughly informed by current work in translation studies and theory. * PARERGON *
Will be of obvious use to scholars in medieval studies. * MEDIEVAL REVIEW *
[A] sophisticated collection of essays. FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES, vol. 50, no. 1, January 2014 * FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES, vol. 50, no. 1, January 2014 *
[Produces] fruitful new lines of inquiry into central questions of politics and ethics at the heart of the ongoing enterprise of translation. [...]The collection will richly reward readers from many fields and challenge scholars to continue the new conversations begun here. * COMITATUS 44 *

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Author's Bio

JANE GILBERT is Professor of Medieval Literature and Critical Theory at University College London, UK. MIRANDA GRIFFIN is University Lecturer in Medieval French at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College. NOAH D. GUYNN is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis.

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